‘Dead Letter Office’ Display to Run Through February
Angelina College’s School of Visual and Performing Arts will host artist/photographer Chris Ireland for an exhibition at the Angelina Center for the Arts Gallery.
Ireland’s display, titled “Dead Letter Office”, will open Jan. 11 and will close with an artist’s reception starting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10 with an artists’ reception in the ACA foyer.
Ireland’s bio relates how he “risked being grounded as a child” when he borrowed his mother’s camera without her permission. His love for creating art through a lens led to his pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a Master of Fine Arts in Digital Media from Washington State University.
With a current focus on “representations of family and personal experience through the vernacular of photography,” Ireland’s works have been featured in exhibitions at numerous venues both nationally and internationally, including the Center of Contemporary Art in Seattle, WA, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, CO, Filter Photo Space in Chicago, IL, Umbrella Arts Gallery in New York, NY, the San Antonio Public Library, and the Houston Center for Photography.
Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Ireland currently lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas. Most recently, he was the founding head of the Department of Visual Arts & Design at Tarleton State University, and now serves as the Executive Director of the Texas Photographic Society.
From the artist’s statement:
“The images I use in my work come from databases of images, real estate sites, social media, and archives. Created from multiple images captured in a variety of spaces (and non-spaces), each composition is shaped slowly, over time, layer by layer, to replicate a mental experience. The work probes my relationship to home, marked by the loss of its certainties and an overall sense of placelessness. Fragmented images, full of overlaps and distortion, like a corrupted hard drive dreaming of a place to return to.”
Admission to the exhibition and reception is free and open to the public.
For further information, contact Le’Anne Alexander at lalexander@angelina.edu.
