May, 2008: Exhibits at MCP
Andrea Gordon Murrill
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Minnesota Projects Gallery:
Andrea Gordon Murrill + The Other Which Is Us
May 3 to July 13, 2008
Bio
Andrea Gordon Murrill is an award winning photographer working and teaching in the fine art and documentary traditions. She exhibits in galleries and museums throughout the United States, and graduated with an MFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2003.
About the Project
The Other Which is Us explores portraiture as it relates to identification. In 1947, Andrea Gordon Murrill's father shot a series of portraits of Micronesian natives as a research project for his Ph.D. in physical anthropology. The images depict frontal posed portraits of individuals wearing numbered signs for identification. Murrill mines the archive of negatives left by her father, digitally manipulating the photographs so we are only able to reference the individuals by their identification number.
