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David Hilliard - Photography

11/25/2008
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204 Educational Sciences Building
1025 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
5:40 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

David Hilliard will be speaking about his latest work in photography.

Hilliard describes his work:

“For years I have been actively documenting my life and the lives of those around me, recording events and attempting to create order in a some times chaotic world. While my photographs focus on the personal, the familiar and the simply ordinary, the work strikes a balance between autobiography and fiction. Within the photographs physical distance is often manipulated to represent emotional distance. The casual glances people share can take on a deeper significance, and what initially appears subjective and intimate is quite often a commentary on the larger contours of life. For me, the construction of panoramic photographs, comprised of various single images, acts as a visual language. Focal planes shift, panel by panel. This sequencing of photographs and shifting of focal planes allows me the luxury of guiding the viewer across the photograph, directing their eye; an effect which could not be achieved through a single image. I continually aspire to represent the spaces we inhabit, relationships we create, and the objects with which we surround ourselves. I hope the messages the photographs deliver speak to the personal as well as the universal experience. I find the enduring power and the sheer ability of a photograph to express a thought, a moment, or an idea, to be the most powerful expression of myself, both as an artist, and as an individual.”

Hilliard received his MFA in 1994 from Yale. He has exhibited his work internationally in a wide range of venues. His work is in a number of prestigious public collections, including the Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago, IL, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

Funding provided by the Anonymous Fund.

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