Float - Color Photograph
2002
David Meanix – Shredded Life
March 23rd – April 5th 2007
Opening night reception with the artist:
Friday March 23rd 6-10 PM
121 Roebling Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Tel: 917-650-3760
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March 23, 2007 Brooklyn, NY: The work of David Meanix has received critical acclaim over the years as a pioneer in “photosculpture”. Meanix creates three-dimensional sculptures composed of prepared and shredded photographs. Taking shots inch by inch, he photographs the entire subject in detail. He then prints these photographs at actual size, matches the pieces up to the original subject’s features and paper machés the pictures into “masks”. The "masks" are then photographed worn or placed in surroundings that compel the viewer to re-interpret concepts of identity, self reflection, destruction and growth through the context of the social and personal veils.
“My sculptures are about release. They portray a bringing forth of one’s true self while consciously shedding pretenses. . . A realization that we are spirit held from release by the physical body; cocoons of sublime bliss.”
Meanix’s work may be
most remembered as the photography selected to represent the art work
of Claire Fisher on HBO’s series, “Six Feet Under.”
In this context he explored the metamorphosis of each character under
their own unique pressures, presenting the cracking and shifting facades
as representation of the characters as they reacted to intense stimuli.
Capla Kesting Fine Art is delighted to host David Meanix’s first
New York solo exhibition, entitled Shredded Life. The show will feature
the first complete viewing of “Everything Changes” a seven-part
photo montage, exploring compelling and somewhat haunting images as frayed
and shattered time.
"This series came about subconsciously. First I fell in love, let's
start there. The full body photosculpture is of my ex-boyfriend. I started
the piece while we were a couple. Things didn't work out but after a separation
period, we finished the sculpture and then I waited another while to re-photograph
"him." For this shoot my intentions were to get a single photo
or more that stood on their own, with hopes of capturing a moment of interaction.
When I looked over my contact sheets, it was obvious to me that I shot
a narrative series representing the push and pulls of our relationship,
my feelings of love and loss, and my hope that things fall in and "out"
of place for a reason."
