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A Series of Travelling Art Shows in Greece, France, and Brazil
Anastasios Presvelis - Greece
Andreas Kargsten – Sweden / Greece
Caterina Aslanidou - Greece
Caterina Canellis - Greece
Children’s paintings from Georgia
Christella Demetriou - Cyprus / Australia
Cristina Schleder – Brazil
Dimitra Goussi (1) - Greece
Dimitra Goussi (2) - Greece
Eirini Tsiraki - Greece
Elli Xatziantoniou - Greece
Elpida Iatrou - Greece
Elsa Tatsi - Greece
Giannis Andriomenos - Greece
Inna Cymlich Janse - Brazil / Australia
Konstantinos Pantelakis - Greece
Luci Torres - Brazil
Marcelo Bicalho - Brazil
Melody Reeves - USA
Nancy Andrade Pinto (Fletea) - Brazil
Nicola Damiani - Italy
Niki Kapokaki – Greece
Noêmia Nunes – Brazil
Osório Garcia - Brazil
Oscar Araripe - Brazil
Sotiria Thomopoulou - Greece
Vanda Chalyvopoulou - Greece
Constance Thalken - USA
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Purge #1
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The Environment: Common Good - Common Responsibility
| The cycles of the natural world are central to the imagery of Purge, a body of photographs derived from yard trimmings hauled to curbside by private homeowners for pick up by the city Sanitation Department in Atlanta. The photographs are intimate examinations of these natural materials, now dead and deemed trash. These gatherings force a reconsideration of our notion of beauty, and, at the same time, speak to our relationship to the natural world and our urge to order it in a particular way. Constance Thalken |
Artist biography
Constance Thalken is a photographer and intermedia artist whose recent work incorporates video, digital technologies, and performance. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, The Bunnen Collection of Atlanta and Georgia Perimeter College in addition to many private collections. She has received individual artists grants from the Georgia Council for the Arts, the Dekalb Council for the Arts and numerous research grants from Georgia State University in Atlanta, where she is an Associate Professor in the Welch School of Art and Design. She often uses animal imagery and references to the natural world to explore ideas about personal loss, transformation and death.
Contact information
email: cthalken qfw gsu.edu
Documents
Selection of other work (download here)
