In this new feature, we’ll be featuring two images per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Keep checking back on Mondays and Thursdays to see an image per artist as well as artist statements and website links.

This is the last weekend of the physical show, but we’ll continue to feature images from Exposure until mid July.  So, if you are in the Boston area, stop by before June 28th!  The PRC is open this Thursday, 10 - 8pm, Friday 10- 6pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 12-5pm. Click here for directions.

Surf on in to our flickr site and check out installation shots and photos from the opening reception of EXPOSURE by clicking here

BRAD MOORE

These photographs were shot in modest, well-worn, suburban cities in central and inland Southern California. Built in the 1950s and 60s, these cities provided a new home and future to a post-war population. This is where I grew up and, after 25 years, I returned. The areas I remembered were fading away, and I was struck by the simultaneous growth and decline. Initially, it was the buildings that interested me; I shot them in formal, almost symmetrical compositions. Then I began shooting the surrounding shrubbery with the same architectural approach. I liked the way the buildings and plants worked together, so that is how the project evolved. I have opted to avoid traditional, documentary-style photography; instead I have photographed in primarily static compositions, reflecting change, irony and evolution.

Brad Moore, Kermore Lane, Stanton, California, 2008, Archival pigment print, 16 x 21 3/4 inches, courtesy of the artist

Click here to visit the artist’s website

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