FAB Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition by artist Myra Greene. The exhibition will be on view February 15th – March 15th. Please join us for this exciting event! Character Recognition is a series of forty-five close-up photographic images of the artist exploring her features in detail. “Confronted with an up swell of bigotry both personal and public, I was forced to ask myself, what do people see when they look at me.” muses Myra,” Am I nothing but black? Is that skin tone enough to describe my nature and expectation in life? Do my strong teeth make me a strong worker? Does my character resonate louder than my skin tone? Using a photographic process linked to the times of ethnographic classification, I repeatedly explore my ethnic features. The lessons learned are haunting and frightening in these modern times. “ Myra’s ambrotypes are created by exposing specially prepared glass plates to light. The technique predates more familiar photographic processes and harkens back to the era when slavery and colonization reined. Many of her projects include photography, printmaking, sound, as well as digital production work. She melds these processes into exploring issues about the body, memory, the absorption of culture and the ever-shifting identity of African Americans. She has been an Artist in Residence at Light Work in Syracuse and the Center of Photography at Woodstock. Her work was recently included in of Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera, at the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art in Hartford Connecticut. Myra is currently an Assistant Professor in the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago. For more information about Myra, and to view more of her work, visit her website.
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