Meggan Gould, Whiteboard 10, Year Unknown
May 29 - July 17 2010
Meggan Gould Photography: Recto/Verso
Exhibition at CMCA May 29 - July 17
Tucker & Bruce Brown Galleries
ART TALK Sunday, June 27, 2 pm. Photographer Meggan Gould will give a visual presentation at CMCA.
Photographer Meggan Gould of Brunswick, Maine, presents "Recto/Verso," two interrelated groups of conceptual photographs that examine the presence of enigmatic words and phrases on surfaces that are sometimes unreadable. Constantly changing words and images on blackboards both in the classroom and beyond are the subject of "Recto." The transient nature of erased words and images written on them are poignant reminders of the fleeting passage of time and even raise questions about who wrote what and why.
The catalyst for "Verso" happened in 2007, when Gould inherited her grandmother's sizable photography collection. She was taken not only by the images of the photographs themselves, but also by the beauty of the faded, often unreadable or cryptic messages written on the backs of photographs. "Left to guess both messages and images provides a kind of 'voyeuristic picture where we are meant to go beyond the obvious to consider 'the other side,'" she explains.
Today, Gould continues to collect found photographs in flea markets and from friends, family, and her photography students at Bowdoin College, where she has taught since 2006. Within the past five years, her work has been exhibited in Vancouver, Canada; Bangkok, Thailand; Seoul, South Korea; Saigon; Leipzig, Germany; and San Paulo, Brazil, as well as coast to coast in the United States. Her work was included in the 2008 CMCA Biennial Juried Exhibition.
