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December Issue 2004
USC - Sumter
in Sumter, SC, Offers Works by Kathleen Robins
The University Gallery inside Anderson Library at USC Sumter in
Sumter, SC, is presenting the exhibition, 1,000 Beautiful Things,
featuring photography by Columbia, SC-based artist Kathleen Robins.
The exhibit will be on view through Dec. 17, 2004.
"Several years ago, my mother sent a book to me, which she
discovered among my grandmother's things," says Robins. "The
book, titled One Thousand Beautiful Things, was a collection
of poems, and inside the front cover there was a note to me from
my grandmother. When I thumbed through the book, several yellowed
clippings and a lock of hair fell to the floor."
Robins continues, "My grandmother lived on our family's land
in the Mississippi Delta for sixty years, until Alzheimer's symptoms
required she move into town. In 2001, I moved home to live on
the farm for the first time in my life, and her stories, photographs,
and vague recollections became part of my experience. I lived
there for two years and took inventory of her belongings."
"I am interested in the relationship between time and memory,
and in the creation of a constructed identity through the collecting
and recontextualization of keepsakes and family photographs,"
say Robins of her work. "This series combines digitized film
stills with photographs and flatbed scans of family memorabilia."
Robbins is an assistant professor of art at the University of
South Carolina in Columbia, where she teaches all levels of photography.
Her work is based on the significance between time and memory
and the relationship between place and identity in the South.
Robbins' images have been regionally and nationally exhibited,
and her photographs are part of numerous private and public collections,
including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans.
After receiving her MFA in 2001 from the University of New Mexico,
Robins taught at Delta State University in Cleveland, MS, before
joining the USC faculty in 2003. Currently, Robbins' images can
be seen at the Society for Contemporary Photography in Kansas
City, MO, the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, MA, and Southside
Gallery in Oxford, MS.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery
listings or call 803/938-3858, weekdays.
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