News Archives - 2007
Christensen Center Art Gallery features Stephen Geffre,
staff photographer
Augsburg College presents staff photographer Stephen Geffre in "Bridges and Canoes ," the exhibit in the Christensen Center Art Gallery running July 13 - September 7.
Artist Gallery Talk: Friday, September 7, 1:30 p.m.
The spliced and multiplied imagery in Stephen Geffre’s artwork
compels us to marvel at how these photographs were made. Dynamic diagonal
forms pull at us, forcing us to enter into the work. But what speaks
to us through these images? How are we supposed to "read" them?
For Geffre, who struggles with a learning disability called "dysgraphia," his
artwork is his best form of communication. Some people, Geffre suggests, "think
of a photograph as a well written sentence that explains exactly what
the author intended." This is not true of his work: "I
move the words around, change the punctuation and jumble the sequence…yet
I always decode the photographs with simple direct titles." These
mundane titles, however, do not provide any profound understanding
of his images. Rather, they rekindle awe for the complex art-making
process, which is what makes Geffre’s art so visually stimulating
and open-ended for the viewer.
Geffre works as the Marketing and Communications photographer for Augsburg College and also runs his own freelance photography business. His photographs have been shown locally and regionally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. This past May Geffre was featured in a live broadcast about his photography on 89.3 The Current.
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information on The Christensen Center Gallery click here.
Image: Canoes 7 (det.), 2004, B/W color C-print