Exhibition and Gallery Talk

 The Plunkett Gallery is proud to present a new exhibition, "Domestic (In)Congruence," by photographers Mark Schoon and Dominic Lippillo. The exhibition is on view through November 21. Both artists will be in attendance for a gallery talk and reception Friday, November 21 from 2-3 pm.

The show features 30 color photographic works that range in scale from 4" x 4" to 33" x 44" and are the result of a unique long distance collaboration between the two artists.
In a collaborative effort, the two photographers living 1,114 miles apart (at the time when the work was created) approach their homes as the sites for exploration of domesticity.
Beginning independently, one photographer creates an image of his home and sends it to the other. The recipient responds to these visual “prompts” with a photograph of his own
that utilizes aesthetic decisions regarding lighting, scale, texture and color – among other factors – to find similarities and differences in his home and to make them read as a pair.
In doing so the artists create a conversation pertaining to the definition, use, and perception of place. Through the use of the diptych format, two images come together to form a
dialogue about proximity, locality, and space versus place.

Dominic Lippillo and Mark Schoon earned their MFA’s in Photography from Ohio University in 2009.
Working independently with lens?based media they soon realized they had a shared interest in the domestic.
Although they approach their solo work differently, a common sensibility could be recognized in the earlier
work of both artists leading to the creation of their first collaborative effort, a collection of photographs titled,
"Anti-­local." Selections from their collaborations are included in the permanent collection of The Museum of
Photographic Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; the Journal
Exposure, and in the supplement of images accompanying Bruce Warren’s textbook Photography: The Concise
Guide (2nd Edition March 2011). Lippillo is an Assistant Professor of Art at Mississippi State University.
Schoon is an Assistant Professor of Art at The University of West Georgia.

Craig Coleman
Associate Professor of Art
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