Jessie Evans-Whinery, homesteader, with her wife..

Debbie Grossman
My Pie Town
April 14- May 21, 2011
JULIE SAUL GALLERY
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My Pie Town is a project by Debbie Grossman in which she reworks and re-imagines a body of images originally photographed by Russell Lee for the United States Farm Security Administration in 1940. Using Photoshop to modify Lee’s pictures, she created an imaginary, parallel world – a Pie Town populated exclusively by women. The images are revised in subtle ways, making the reading of them very complicated and compelling. The sixteen images in the series are both color and black and white, and are all based on Lee’s unpublished series on Pietown, a homesteaded community in New Mexico.

The original photographs are available either through the Library of Congress or through the Web. Grossman says of the project “I’ve begun to think of Photoshop as my medium – I’m fascinated by the fact this it shares qualities with both photography and drawing…..I enjoy imagining My Pie Town working as its own kind of (lighthearted) propaganda”.

In conjunction with the show, the gallery is publishing a small monograph of My Pie Town in a limited edition 100 copies.

DEBBIE GROSSMAN
MY PIE TOWN
APRIL 14 – MAY 21, 2011

Main Street, Pie Town , 2009-10

Couple at community meeting, 2009-10

Ann Hesse, homesteader, 2009/10

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