April 4 – 27, 1991
Born in 1943 in northcentral Ohio, Sheron Rupp did not seriously begin a career in photography until she received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts in 1982. Today, her work is best recognized for the color photographs she’s made of people, especially children, living in rural, small towns in America. These photographs often include the rough and tumble of back yards and the quotidian moments in family life.
Sheron Rupp has received numerous grants for these years of travel to small towns unknown to the world at large, including a Guggenheim in 1990. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The J.Paul Getty Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Art, The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, among others.
In 2019, Taken from Memory, was published by Kehrer Verlag. This was Sheron Rupp’s first book of color photographs, which covered a period of almost thirty years of photographing the rural and small town life in various parts of the United States.
The photographs selected here are from a period in the 1980’s and early 1990’s when she had an exhibition of recent work at Blue Sky Gallery in April of 1991. With her Guggenheim grant, she had just returned from a long period of photographing in the rural NorthEast Kingdom of Vermont and the Appalachian areas of Kentucky and Tennesse. Other photos from that time period are also included in this selection.
Sheron Rupp has made her home in western Massachusetts for the past fifty years. More about her and her photography can be viewed on her website: www.sheronrupp.net