Four photographs by David Modica, now at Bank Street Brewhouse.

Last winter, there was a top-notch exhibit at the Carnegie Center.

Of Place at the Carnegie: An "antidote" to the tyranny of our white bread Bicentennial.

Reminder: "Of Place" at the Carnegie, through January 11, 2014.

Subsequently, I purchased four of the black and white photos being shown in the exhibit by David Modica. Yesterday I finally got around to mounting them at Bank Street Brewhouse. The iPhone photos below are fairly horrendous, but at least give you an idea of the appearance. Note how in two of them, reflected colors from the BSB interior lend a certain weirdness. All four are silver gelatin photographs. 

Little Chef at Night, For Edward Hopper 2009

Hugh Bir, Jr., Market Street 2013

Say Cheese! David Thrasher 2013

Primal Scream, Bank Street Brewhouse 2013

It's last call for "Of Place" at the Carnegie. Go there now.

It's your last chance to view "Of Place" at the Carnegie Center. We already did, and you should consider dropping by.

Of Place at the Carnegie: An "antidote" to the tyranny of our white bread Bicentennial.

Reminder: "Of Place" at the Carnegie, through January 11, 2014.

Here's the official final reminder from Laura at the Carnegie Center. You can have a nice beer before or after right across the street, you know.

Meet and Mingle with photographer David Modica this Sat. January 11, from 1-3 pm.

David Modica, No Swimming - Mt. St. Francis 2010. Silver gelatin photograph.

This Saturday January 11, 2014 is the last day of the exhibit Of Place, featuring the work of video artist Tiffany Carbonneau and photographer David Modica. Join us from 1-3 pm on Saturday for a "meet and mingle" with David Modica. We'll have coffee and light refreshments available. Whether you're coming to see Of Place for the first time or want to have a second look, we hope you'll take this opportunity to visit when David Modica will be here to answer your questions.

You can also click on the video link below to watch a video of Tiffany and David talking about their art in the exhibit Of Place.

Of Place

If you can't make it for the "meet and mingle" from 1-3 pm, you can still see Of Place on its last day during our normal hours from 10 am-5:30 pm. 

Thank you and we hope to see you this Saturday!

Laura Wilkins, Director of Marketing & Outreach

Of Place at the Carnegie: An "antidote" to the tyranny of our white bread Bicentennial.

Yesterday I vented at Facebook.

Imagine that.

If I believed in some variety of god, I'd thank her that the NA Bicentennial year is nearly finished. So much hard work, and such a pristine tea and crumpets celebration, given NA's indisputable lineage as dirty, corrupted and imperfect river town; it strikes me as an antibiotic that kills good and bad microbes alike, with scrubbed beige Formica emerging from the other side of the assembly line. I hope that when Laura Buckingham starts baking, we get some damned pumpernickel, because after 2013, I never want to see a slice of Caesar-brand white bread ever again. Rant over.

Laura says she does pumpernickel, and Bluegill reminds us of a forthcoming event at the Carnegie Center, one that clearly shows how much more meaningful this anniversary year could have been had cooperation and participation been the goal rather than exclusion.

And I'm not saying this just because David Modica took pictures of me.

---

October 18, 2013 – January 11, 2014
New Albany Bicentennial Exhibition: Of Place
Tiffany Carbonneau and David Modica
Opening Reception: Friday, October 18, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

As New Albany's bicentennial year comes to an end, our attention turns to New Albany today and the future of our community. The exhibition Of Place presents artworks by Tiffany Carbonneau and David Modica, two contemporary New Albany artists that speak to their experiences of living here today. Their different perspectives influence their points-of-view on the city — one is a longtime resident, the other recently moved here. They both work in relatively new art media — one with photography, the other with video. The combination of their approaches also connects to a theme that finds its way into most discussions about place and culture today, namely the relationship between local and global experiences and societal issues. David Modica's photographs explore the stories, characters and places that a resident gets to know intimately when he interacts with the community. He gives us a glimpse of multiple perspectives and experiences that individuals have of our community on a daily basis. Meanwhile, the videos of Tiffany Carbonneau place New Albany in a global context as a mid-sized city located on a major waterway. Her documentations of similar places around the world strive to show us just how similar our local experience is to that of others around the world.