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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=75 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="home1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" StudioSoto Home Page"><U><B><IMG SRC="ceb2c340.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="52" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Info"><U>Info</U></A>   |   <A HREF="shows.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shows"><U>Shows</U></A>   |   <A HREF="home18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Artists"><U>Artists</U></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="home5ba.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="lunenburg"><U>lunenburg</U></A></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7008c80808000.png" HEIGHT="9" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">anderson</B></div> <div> <A HREF="home5c5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="burns"><U>burns</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home5c4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="daniels"><U>daniels</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home5c3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="granick"><U>granick</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home5c2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="hayward"><U>hayward</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home5c1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="sotorosa"><U>soto-rosa</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home5c0.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="welke"><U>welke</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=405 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B>Lunenburg</B></div> <div> <I><B>Revisited</B></I></div> <div> January 13, 2006 - February 5, 2006</div> <bR> <div> <B>Ri Anderson</B> has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 1993. Solo exhibitions include La Petite Mort Gallery in Ottawa, Canada; Northeast Exposure Online, Photographic Resource Center in Boston, MA; and Studio Soto in Boston, MA. Group exhibitions include the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA; Viridian Artists, New York, NY; Flying Space, Sag Harbor, NY; Emmanuel College, Boston, MA; Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA; and the Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA. Her work is in the Permanent Collection of the DeCordova Museum. Awards include Jean & Kahlil Gibran Award, Copley Society of Boston and Top 100 Photographers, Ernst Haas Golden Light Awards, Maine Photographic Workshops. Her work has been reviewed in Art Papers, Time Out New York, Art New England, The Boston Globe, and Ottawa Xpress, among others. Anderson recently received her Master of Fine Arts through Massachusetts College of Art. Anderson has taught at Massachusetts College of Art, Harvard University Summer School, Boston Photography Collaborative, and DeCordova Museum School of Art. Currently, Anderson is residing in Mexico and working on a new body of photographs.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> This body of work explores the archetype of the mother/child relationship.</div> <bR> <div> Since I became a mother in October 2002 I have been photographing my daughter, my mother and myself. I am interested in exploring the conflicting physical, psychological, and emotional dynamics that reside in the mother/child bond: a world replete with joy, but also hidden dangers, fears, and inconsistencies. It is a world in which, like children's fairy tales, nothing is as it appears and reality is in a constant state of flux. </div> <bR> <div> This work has been motivated in part by painters whose printed reproductions occupied my childhood home, including Rousseau, Gauguin, and van Gogh (all whose sense of magic and apprehension influenced me early on) - and by the religious imagery in the churches where my father worked as a minister. I have recently become fascinated with representations of the Garden of Eden and the Madonna and Child in 15th century northern Renaissance painting. In my photographs, I reinvestigate the contradictory attributes of the woman and child present in these early Renaissance paintings with a secular, and autobiographical, backdrop. I use bodily gestures, garden-like settings, and starkly lit interiors as allegorical elements of my pictures, loosely reinterpreting religious themes through the lives of this present day three generation matriarchy.</div> <bR> <div> While I probe my own raw anxieties of motherhood through this work, I hope to reveal the vulnerability and weightlessness of the mother/child kinship, a sense of being both separate and together. I advocate a heightened sense of irrationality in relation to the categories of mother, daughter, and grandmother in order to highlight the slippages and reversals between the roles of self, parent, and child, where the potentials of the others exist even if in actuality they do not. I employ suggestive rather than fixed narratives in order to accent the fluid nature of our intertwined lives. With simultaneous and alternating perceptions of safety and danger, past and future, certainty and doubt, come steady fluctuations between dream and reality states. Through the coexistence of such contradictions come palpable traces of magic, fantasy, and fear.</div> <div>  </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>