ࡱ> 130@ jbjb hhl &  >(fffffffn p p p p p p , ^ fffff ff>f^ffn fn ` R R 2 D}.R R  R R FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bonnie Franklin:  HYPERLINK "mailto:bfrankli@ramapo.edu" bfrankli@ramapo.edu or Rosa Diaz-Mulryan:  HYPERLINK "mailto:rmulryan@ramapo.edu" rmulryan@ramapo.edu October 19, 2005 NATIVE AMERICAN THEMES AND CONCEPTS ARE FOCUS OF PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION AT RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY (Mahwah) In Search of Other Histories: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Lauren Piperno, a photo exhibition that addresses Native American themes and concepts of history, will open in the Pascal Gallery at 69ɫƵ of New Jersey on Wednesday, November 9 and continue through December 16. An opening reception will be held from 5 7 p.m. on November 9. At 6:30 p.m. artist Lauren Piperno will give a talk; she will be accompanied by author Evan Pritchard, founder and director of the Center for Algonquin Culture in Woodstock, NY. When asked where she is from, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew says she often has to clarify shes an Indian from India. In her work she looks at the other Indian. In conjunction with an exhibit titled Identity, presented by Sepia International, the artist said, I find similarities in how nineteenth century photographers of Native Americans looked at what they called the primitive natives, similar to the colonial gaze of the nineteenth century British photographers working in India. In every culture, there is the other. Combining nineteenth century photographic representations of Native Americans with digitally altered facsimiles using her own image, Matthew creates fabricated pairings that explore the notions of originality and identity. She is an assistant professor of photography at the University of Rhode Island. Her work can be found in the collections of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; and the RISD Museum, Providence, RI, among others. (more) - 2 - Lauren Pipernos Living History series, of which several works are on exhibit at 69ɫƵ, is a work-in-progress and continues her on-going investigation of American pop culture and Americas desire to recycle events and histories of the past. Pipernos black-and-white Polaroid pairings of a Revolutionary War re-enactor with a powwow dancer image probes the cultural and political legacy of the historic mid-Hudson region. This contrasting series of two cultures, two histories, and of other times, pays homage to the performers of living history, as well as the powerful foundational commonality of democratic principals shared by both the Iroquois Confederacy and the infant American Republic. The viewer is given a glimpse of the honored traditions of both worlds and the images chosen for the exhibit pose an enigmatic and transformative perspective regarding Americas past, present and her peoples. Piperno is a photographer and educator. She has taught at ICP and Parsons in New York City, SUNY Westchester, NY and 69ɫƵ. Her work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; the George Eastman House; and the Bibliothque Nationale, France, among others. This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. The Pascal Gallery is located in the Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts at 69ɫƵ. 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