http://www.themap.org/bridgetconn Sun, 12 May 2013 02:03:57 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.themap.org/bridgetconn&area=blog&item=150 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 http://www.themap.org/bridgetconn&area=blog&item=146 Bridget Conn presents a new installation on the Pump Gallery walls, as well as an installation of older photographic and mixed media works spanning 14 years. “Timeline” opens on Saturday October 6, with a reception from 6-9 p.m., and hangs through October 30.

“At this point my life, I frequently find myself recalling events that feel like months ago, only to discover they occurred years ago. Life has a way of planing out, and I have a way of not being able to recognize that ten years ago is not now. Timeline is a way to practice letting go, to address my obsession with and curse of counting, of hoarding, of filing everything into an orderly fashion, only to be suffocated by the accessible results. I recall the weather the day I built that shadowbox, I remember the exact date I made that photograph, but weight of this information grows heavy as years pass. I am surrounded by ghosts of my past states in my piles of artwork; they create such a din that I can’t hear the voice of who I now am. While I yearn for order, and take comfort in what I have created, I also crave the gift of forgetting.”

Bridget Conn is the Co-Director of The Asheville Darkroom, a soon-to-be-non-profit focused on photography education and community darkroom access. She also teaches Digital Media at AB Tech and is a contributing Art writer for the Mountain Xpress and Verve Magazine. Her work can be seen at www.bridgetconnartstudio.net.
]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 http://www.themap.org/bridgetconn&area=blog&item=145 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 http://www.themap.org/bridgetconn&area=blog&item=142 Susannah Zucker's powerful sculpture work at The Artery]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 http://www.themap.org/bridgetconn&area=blog&item=138 Asheville's public darkroom, seeped in photography tradition, deserves a future]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 http://www.themap.org/bridgetconn&area=blog&item=137 I've begun writing articles on artists and shows in Asheville for examiner.com. My latest review is on the work of Spencer Herr.

]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 http://www.themap.org/bridgetconn&area=blog&item=135 The Asheville Darkroom Kickstarter]]> Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 http://www.themap.org/bridgetconn&area=blog&item=126 Check out today's article in the Citizen Times on the darkroom. I am teaching a Photo 101 and a Mixed Media workshop in September. Message me if you are interested.

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