July 1 – 31, 1993
Hand-colored Images series
These photographs are about the act of conditioning.
Much like the first few lines in a novel or an empty theatre set, they involve
mental positioning and provoke anticipation.
Each miniature tableau is a counter-top reality –
a channel for the exploration of expectation and recognition.
The images in this series are gelatin silver prints initially made on Polaroid 665 media using a Charrette Scale-Model Architectural Camera and subsequently colored with
pencils and dyes. They were made with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bush Foundation, the Polaroid Corporation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the University of Minnesota.
Black-and-white photographs
This series of photographic prints, The Christina Suite, is dedicated to my art school friend Christina Ramberg. Christina and I had our children within a few weeks of one another. These pictures are not about her but were made at a time when she was repeatedly in my thoughts, during an extended, unremitting illness. Christina died in 1995, but I always will continue to think of her and her son Alex, and his father Phil Hanson, with great respect and fondness.
Christina Ramberg, a painter and quilter whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, was on the painting faculty of the School of the Art Instiute of Chicago. She was among the Chicago Imagist painters.
The images in this series are gelatin silver prints initially made on Polaroid 665 media using a Charrette Scale-Model Architectural Camera. They were made with support from the the Polaroid Corporation, McKnight Foundation Fellowships for Artists, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the University of Minnesota.
Gloria DeFilipps Brush was born in Chicago, where she earned the M.F.A. degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a professor in Art + Design at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
Brush has received artist fellowships or grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Midwest, the Minnesota State Arts Board, Polaroid Corporation, and the Bush and McKnight Foundations. Her work has been published in Leonardo, Zoom International, American Photographer, Darkroom Photography, Lightworks, Angeles, Wired, Harper’s, and Viewcamera magazines. Her photographs appear in Naomi Rosenblum’s book A History of Women Photographers, Imagination/ Innovation: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, and Robert Hirsch’s Photographic Possibilities.
Brush’s photographs have been included in exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MAMU Gallery in Budapest, SIGGRAPH, D-Art at the University of London, the Brasília Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Sol Mednick Gallery at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, the Visual Arts Museum at the School of Visual Arts, New York, the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, the Print Club in Philadelphia, Clarence Kennedy Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Silver Image Gallery in Seattle, The Friends of Photography (now Ansel Adams Center) in San Francisco, the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, among many others.
Her work recently has appeared in exhibitions at PACE Arts Center in Denver and the Ann Arbor Art Center in Michigan. She received the First Place Award from juror Stephen Perloff for work at the FotoFoto Gallery in Huntington, New York.