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Main Gallery & Left Gallery
Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power
Minneapolis-based Paul Shambroom is the subject of a mid-career survey that examines his most important bodies of photographic work. These include investigative and lush color images that require the artist to do extensive research to identify locations and contacts, negotiate access, and carefully consider his strategies of format, composition, and scale. The Meetings series of photographs explores the democratic process as witnessed in city council meetings taken in most of the United States of America. Other photographs document the overwhelming architectural and structural conditions at various nuclear sites, focusing on the massive machinery, bold colors, signage, and personnel. A recent series explores the men and women currently working at homeland security training sites, where they test protective gear and develop maneuvers for crisis situations. This exhibition is in collaboration with the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
This exhibition was initiated by Diane Mullin, of the Wiesman Art Museum; Helena Reckitt, formerly of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and currently of the Power Plant, Toronto; and Christopher Scoates, formerly of the Atlanta College of Art, and now of California State University, Long Beach.
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