Silver Eye Center for Photography Presents Sarah Hobbs Out of Mind
THe Silver Eye Center for Photography presents Sarah Hobbs Out of Mind on view through March 12, 2011.
Sometimes, there is only a slight degree of difference between what constitutes the normal and the abnormal in human behavior and thought. Sarah Hobbs explores this psychologically charged terrain in Out of Mind, which features fifteen of her large-scale photographs created between 1999 and 2009.
Sarah Hobbs Insomnia, 2000 Chromogenic print on dibond 48″ x 60″ Courtesy of the artist and Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA.
Set almost entirely in domestic environments, each image focuses on some phobic, obsessive or neurotic tendency – pathological states that are highly individualized and yet experienced to some extent by even the most emotionally healthy among us. By turns discomfiting and familiar, empathetic and humorous, Sarah Hobbs’ work conveys much about the contradictory sides of our human nature as well as about theatricality, fiction and performance in contemporary photography.
Sarah Hobbs was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, and earned both her BFA in art history and her MFA in photography from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Her work was recently included in On the Scene: Kota Ezawa, Sarah Hobbs, and Angela Strassheim at The Art Institute of Chicago and in Slightly Unbalanced, a touring exhibition organized by Independent Curators International in New York. Hobbs’ photographs are found in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Sir Elton John Collection; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
Sarah Hobbs: Out of Mind is generously supported by silvereye center for photography members and individual donors and by the Allegheny Regional Asset District, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Heinz Endowments and The Fine Foundation. Broadcast media sponsorship is provided by WYEP/91.3 FM.
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