Paradise Wavering is a photographic stream of consciousness that
travels through a reservoir of memories. Alice Hargrave explores
experiences that reflect on the passage of time and seeks the
sublime in moments on the periphery of daily life. By interspersing
the work she currently makes with re-photographed vintage source
material from her own family archive of 8mm films and snapshots,
she melds together past and present, and alludes to an uncertain
future where environmental angst pervades. The resulting
curvilinear narrative is fractured, frayed, and stained in color,
as are our memories and photographic substrates themselves. Leading
through prairies, mangroves and tropical forests, the photographs
are inspired by the heroic landscapes of early travel photography,
vernacular family pictures, and the first color processes such as
Autochromes. They embrace, but also re-contextualize, and reimagine
the cliches of documenting family travels where photography's role
is to harness exotic flora and fauna or "Kodachrome" moments from a
moving car, her liberal and intuitive use of the vivid, visceral
colors of recollection eclipses reality, inscribes emotion, and
reveals how photographs literally color memory and perception.
Color itself becomes a subject, leaving behind its mood and patina
as a shroud. In addition to Hargrave's photographs, Paradise
Wavering also features an essay by Allison Grant, an interview by
Kendra Paitz, and two excerpts from Rebecca Solnit's seminal book
Field Guide to Getting Lost. Alice Q. Hargrave is a photographic
artist and educator, based in Chicago. Her work explores the
fugitive nature of experience, time, light and the photographic
medium itself, and how photographs literally color memory and
perception Hargrave has had several one-person and group
exhibitions, including two one-person shows at The Chicago Cultural
Center. She exhibits and is collected nationally and
internationally; her work is included in the collections of The
Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Ruttenberg Collection,
Nuveen Corporation, Outer Circle Corporation, and Rush Presbyterian
Hospital among others. Her work has been seen at Yale University
Art Gallery, The Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, Ill.), The Museum of
Contemporary Photography, The Tweed Museum of Art, Art Metz
(France), Klein Gallery, and Carol Ehlers Gallery, which
represented her. Hargrave has received many awards for her work,
and has been published and reviewed in several journals. She is an
adjunct professor at Columbia College in Chicago, where she has
taught both full time and part time since 1994. Allison Grant is a
Chicago based curator, writer, and artist. Currently, she serves as
assistant curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at
Columbia College Chicago, where she has worked since 2008. Grant
holds an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago and a BFA
from the Columbus College of Art and Design in Media Studies. She
teaches in the Photography and Art & Design departments at
Columbia College Chicago. Sandra Binion is an interdisciplinary
artist based in Chicago. In addition to her own career as an
artist, she curates exhibitions for Experimental Sound Studio's
Audible Gallery. For each of these, she composes a poem in lieu of
a curatorial statement in order to reflect on the aesthetic and
emotional core of the artists whose work she has selected. Kendra
Paitz is Senior Curator at University Galleries of Illinois State
University, where she has been since 2008. She is also the founding
Director at Violet Poe Projects, an independent artist-project
space. She has organized solo exhibitions featuring Juan Angel
Chavez, Laura Letinsky, Melanie Schiff, Jason Lazarus (co-curated),
Stanya Kahn, Carrie Schneider, Kendell Carter, Stephanie Brooks,
Oliver Herring (co-curated), Irena Knezevic, Bob Jones, Schuyler
Maehl,Adam Farcus, and Shinique Smith, among others. Her group
exhibitions include The House of the Seven Gables, Orison
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