Julie Blackmon: Moonball

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Julie Blackmon: Moonball

April 16, 2025 – June 28, 2025

Contemporary American photographer Julie Blackmon draws inspiration from the raucous tavern scenes of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painters, creating photographs based around the people and places in her small community.

Julie Blackmon has compared her surroundings to a giant Hollywood prop closet, where a Starbucks employee out on a smoke break may appear in her next photograph, or the beauty shop she passes every day becomes the setting for a new piece. “It’s a fun perspective to have … to see the world around you as a potential story or idea.

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Cig Harvey: Emerald Drifters

April 16, 2025 – June 28, 2025

 

Cig Harvey, Emerald Eye, Rockport, Maine, 2024

Cig Harvey is a British-born photographer and writer known for her vivid, large-scale color photographs and evocative storytelling. Based in Maine, Harvey explores themes of memory, family, and the sensory experience of everyday life, blending photography with creative nonfiction. Her work is rich in implied narrative, deeply rooted in the natural world and devoted to the topic of what it is to feel.

Born in the United Kingdom, Cig Harvey moved to the United States and has built an acclaimed career in fine art photography. Her journey as a photographer has been shaped by a lifelong fascination…

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