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Kelsey Karper
Curator, Artist, Project Manager
The Company You Keep is an exhibition featuring portraits of a group of the dearest of friends. Each artist created a portrait of the others in the circle of friends, as well as a self-portrait.
November 15, 2013-January 4, 2014
Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
Exhibition with Bonnie Allen, Jennifer Barron, Lori Oden, Romy Owens, and Stephanie Ruggles Winter.
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." -Virginia Woolf, "The Waves," 1931
These images each tell a story, though not the whole story. They are a single frame, cut from an imaginary tale. By emphasizing defining qualities in my friends they’ve become characters in these stories. The images in this series are a collage of sorts – the components are found in discarded books and magazines, then reassembled to create a completely new image. These new scenes are photographed using traditional black and white photography techniques.