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Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project: Molly Reilly

'Gone By' by Molly Reilly
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Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project: Molly Reilly, May 2006
Your Art Here presents 'Gone By' by artist Molly Reilly for the Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project. The billboard will be mounted May 2006.

ARTWORK STATEMENT

'Gone By' is from a series of landscapes entitled 'All that Remains Will Be Devoured'. The images are composed from an eclectic stockpile of thrift store acquisitions, domestic detritus and items scavenged from the estates of the deceased. Based off an archive of 1960's Kodachrome vacation slides, objects representing loss and familiarity are composed within vacant landscapes. Scanned and stitched together these images are full of seams. This is photography on the inside out, stretched and sustained by its remnants.

Foraging through thrift stores developed into my art, as art. Finding things I deemed as interesting had the same kind of satisfaction as photographing. Using the thrift in my art justified not only my obsession to go driving aimlessly, looking for obscure thrift stores but also seemingly useless purchases. Cataloging these things with the scanner gave the objects a replaced realism that was better in ways than owning the object, cluttering my space. This way I was also able to send it back where it came from keeping things moving in a cyclical nature. The flattening of these objects led to the removal of nearly all-structural material. These new compositions lent themselves like big stickers or strips of wallpaper, becoming atmospheric and reminiscent at the same time. Roads leading nowhere and folded, vacuum-like seams in the landscape constituted an exterior sense of comfort that worked its way out from the inside, letting out a certain amount of sadness and taking some back in again.

ARTIST BIO
Born 1973
Buffalo, NY

In 1997 I received my BFA in Photography from the California College of Arts (CCA) in Oakland CA. Several years later I returned to CCA as the Studio Manager of the Photography Department. At this time I began showing work locally and nationally, including a series of images at the SF Arts Commission Gallery. I held my position as Studio Manager for several years before my acceptance to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. I received my MFA from Cranbrook in 2004. Prior to arriving at Indiana University I taught a variety of photography courses at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and the University of Michigan in Flint.

CONTACT INFO

Molly Reilly
www.mollyReilly.com (website)

RESUME

Exhibitions
5/2006 Your Art Here Indianapolis, IN Bill Board Project slotted for Massachusetts Ave.
3/2006 WAH Center Brooklyn, NY 'Sun Prints to Mega Pixels' Group show juried by Jerry Uelsmann
2/2006 Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit Detroit, MI 'All Media Show'
12/2005 Projekt 30 Online Gallery featured for the month of December
10/2005 University Art Gallery Terre Haute, IN 'Foot Candles: History and Process in Contemporary Photography'
9/2005 LACDA Los Angeles, CA 'Snap to Grid'
8/2005 SOFA Gallery Bloomington, IN 'Vacation '05''
5/2004 Paint Creek Art Center Rochester, MI 'Art & Auto'
5/2004 Slows Detroit, MI 'Detroit Artist Showcase'
5/2004 Daimler Chrysler Art Gallery Pontiac, MI 'Recent Acquisitions'
5/2004 Cranbrook Art Museum Bloomfield Hills, MI 'Thesis Exhibition'
1/2004 Ross Museum Delaware, OH 'No Cultural Radar'
10/2003 Center for Creative Studies Detroit, MI 'Faculty Exhibition'
10/2003 Forum Gallery Bloomfield Hills, MI 'Printed Matter Exhibition'
12/2002 Wayne State Community Arts Gallery Detroit, MI 'X/CHANGE'
2/2002 Nexus Gallery Berkeley, CA 'Two by Three' Self-organized exhibition with five other Bay Area Artists.
1/2001 Harwood Art Center Albuquerque, NM 'Road Show'
3/2001 SF Arts Commission San Francisco, CA Group show juried by Duane Michals
1/2000 Red Door Gallery Oakland, CA

Awards/Grants
2005 Daimler Chrysler Artwork Purchase Award
2003 Merit Scholarship
2002 LeRoy Scholarship

Publications
8/2004 Suburban Community- Arts & Entertainment
2004 Cranbrook Academy of Art Grad Book
3/2001 Photo Metro Magazine
1999 CCA Catalogs

Education
2002-2004 MFA in Photography. Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, MI
1995-1997 BFA in Photography. California College of Art Oakland, CA
1991-1993 Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD
1994 University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, Concentration in Irish Literature

Experience
2005/Present Lecture Indiana University Bloomington, IN