Mobile Home Portraits
"In 1982, on a friend's recommendation, my father bought a mobile home overlooking a golf course in Melbourne Beach, Florida. My family and I have visited every January since then. I photograph at night, after 8:00pm. The streets are desolate. The mobile home park is transformed; lit by moonlight, all is quiet and still."
The work of Gelles caught my eye at Art Basel for an obvious reason; the gas station photo, but I found a depth in her work that reaches beyond the topic. The mood & the lighting are so strongly tied to the topic. I'm impressed with the depth she reaches in these fairly simple photos. Hopefully this is something I can find during the course of the last semester. She has another series entitled "Beach Box" which is basic & graphic in nature.....definetly relates to my work.
Gelles received her MFA in Photography fro RISD in 1991. She has done several artist residencies and solo exhibitions, and published three books. She is curretnly represented by several galleries, mainly the Stephen Cohen Gallery in California.
artists site: http://www.judygelles.com/index.html
gallery: http://www.stephencohengallery.com
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