Dick
Averns
Jeffery
Byrd
Jane
Calvin
Albert
Chong
Joseph
DeLappe
Fay
Fair-
brother
Jim
Jipson
Heidi
Kumao
Dinh
Q.Lê
Delilah
Montoya
James
Thomas
 


Jane Calvin
Chicago, Illinois

True/Stories


Exploring the construction of "narratives," simultaneously visual and verbal, Calvin's images are made by monitoring projected imagery, found objects, and appropriated texts into room-sized assemblages which she then photographs, creating a tableaux which explore themes of mystery, menace, 'romance', and the eroticism of childhood.

The word pieces have been constructed by combining texts from a variety of sources: grammar and children's reading books; magazine ads and clothing catalogs; paperback romance and mystery novels found in suburban public libraries.

The work brings up the discussion between the visual and the verbal telling of tales. It also refers to the disjunction between the real and the imaginary, or the fictive and the factual, alluding to the ambiguity of memories.

 

 
 
 
Chambers of Enchantment