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This is Who We Are: 19th and 20th Century Portraits Exhibit
The works in the exhibit are from a private collection.
This is Who We Are, a new exhibit coming to the Chesapeake Gallery located in the Student Center at Harford Community College, opened this week. In conjunction with the exhibit, a reception and curator’s talk will be held in the Gallery on Thursday, September 15, from 5:30 to 7 PM.
The show looks at the ways we image ourselves through a mixture of formal, painted portraits with the changing methods of photography. The works in the exhibit are from a private collection and include traditional and modernist painted portraits from the 19th and 20th centuries that mingle with examples of various popular photographic methods over the same periods, including Daguerreotypes, tintypes, carte de visites, and paper-based snapshots.
The mixture of these different portrait types is intended to raise questions about the construction of identity through the ways we are reflected through external viewpoints. In what ways are portraits an image of ourselves, and how much of ourselves is a reflection of our portraits? The mixture of high and low, large and small, and the common and the rare that is reflected in the variety of media in the show is meant to spur such questions in the viewer.
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Jeff Ball is the exhibit curator, Jaime Schultz is the assistant curator, and Brad Blair is the Gallery coordinator.
The exhibit will run at the Chesapeake Gallery until September 16. Gallery hours are Monday and Thursday, 8:30 AM to 7 PM; Tuesday and Wednesday, 8:30 AM to 5 PM; and Friday, 8 AM to 4:30 PM.
