Even though the juried show is now no longer on the gallery walls, we’ll continue to feature two images per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition until next Thursday. Check back Monday and Thursday to see the last images and artists, including artist statements and website links.

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BETSY SCHNEIDER-”Scenes” 2000-2009

With the hope of subtly subverting expectations of what childhood should look like, I strive to make images which are at once familiar and strange, provocative and reassuring, candid and performative. I believe that childhood is defined less by an idealized state of innocence and more by a drive for knowledge and experience. The series consists of intuitive and spontaneous pictures taken when I am with my children and their friends in our everyday lives: in backyards, pools, parks, motels, zoos, etc..  The work grows out of my observations of my children’s’ experience of the world. Ultimately, the work, like parenthood itself, has proven to be far less of a means to express my previously established ideas about children and being a parent, but has taken on much more of its own journey, teaching and revealing as much as reflecting. This continues to be a work in progress.

Betsy Schneider, The Tub, 2003, from the series “Scenes,” Archival inkjet print, 16 x 20 inches, courtesy of the artist

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