Opening Reception with the Artists: Friday, September 12, 6 -8 pm
Meet the Artists at an Informal Talk: Saturday, September 13 at 11 am
This fall, Jackson Fine Art kicks off
the season with two stunning solo shows by international contemporary
artists - Canadian artist Edith Maybin and London-based
photographer and author Christopher Bucklow.
Maybin, who sprang to critical and commercial success
with her Tenby Series, exhibits new works, which explore the
conversion of consciousness while paying homage to Old Masters.
Bucklow, an explorer of the unconscious known for his
Guest Series, will also be an honored speaker at ACP 10 this
fall.
Newcomer Edith Maybin quickly earned commercial acclaim as well as the
recognition of major art critics with reviews in the New York Times, New
Yorker and New York Magazine following the exhibition of her first body of
work Tenby Documents, which explored the taboos of motherhood. By
digitally and seamlessly merging her body with her daughter's, Maybin
challenged the viewer to question their own notions of identity, sexuality
and self-consciousness through somewhat surrealist images, which sometimes
pay homage to the great René Magritte. Maybin began exhibiting with
Jackson Fine Art last winter, and since that time has participated in
prestigious art fairs such as AIPAD Miami and NY.
Jackson Fine Art is delighted and honored to premiere Maybin's second body
of work The Conversion Document, which
investigates our daily metamorphosis - the conversion of consciousness
from day to night - and asks, which state is more real? Again, Maybin
poses her daughter then merges their bodies, this time within a mirrored
pink velvet setting that alludes to a Madonna video. Maybin photographed
her sleeping daughter to exemplify the fine line between death, beauty and
fear before supplementing the child's repose with her own bodily reference
to Bernini's "Ecstasy of Saint Teresa" and an equestrian nod to
Caravaggio's "Conversion of Saint Paul." Visually deep and rich, the works
of The Conversion Document again provide evidence that Maybin is a
photographer worthy of much acclaim.
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Renowned British photographer
Christopher Bucklow uses his light-inspired photographs
to delve into the unconscious and remake the self into one with his new
series Tetrarch.
Rejecting the Cartesian division of mind and body, Bucklow reacts against
this dualism and claims products of the mind are as "natural" as those of
nature. His highly beautiful images come from the visitors of his dreams,
which he creates through thousands of pinholes letting in sunlight. While
the works investigate murky states of consciousness, they are also
attractive on the surface, demanding attention on multiple levels.
Bucklow worked as an art
historian with the Victoria & Albert Museum for 15 years before becoming a
professional artist. Each of his series since that time has been as packed
with theory as with conceptualization.
As the honorary guest speaker at Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Bucklow
will deliver the opening lecture, initiating the month-long citywide
celebration of photography, which has helped position Atlanta as a vital
photography community. Bucklow's lecture will take place on Thursday,
September 11 at 7 p.m. at the Woodruff Arts Center, Rich Auditorium.
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Edith Maybin, A
graduate of Swansea Institute of Art, UK, won the title of Free Range
2006 Photographer of the Year; Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London.
Maybin has shown throughout the UK, Canada and the United
States and has works in collections including The Sir Elton John
Photography Collection, National Portrait Gallery in London and National
Museum in Cardiff, Wales. In 2007, Maybin earned the
Flash Forward Emerging Photographers award from The Magenta Foundation.
Christopher Bucklow Since 1992, has had solo and guest
exhibitions throughout Europe and the UK as well as the United States,
Japan and Australia. His work is included in collections at the Museum of
Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Victoria &
Albert Museum, London; The British Council, Israel and Miami Art Museum.
He served as Artist in Residence at The British Museum in London from 2002
to 2003. Bucklow has also written and lectured extensively
on topics like photography, postmodernism, William Blake and the mind.
