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Artist Reception for C. M. Chapman, Rememoration

LOCAL NEWTOWN ARTIST & FEATURE FILM EFFECTS ANIMATOR FEATURED FOR AN OPENING OF HIS FINE ART, REMEMORATION
Take a walk back in time find stories never told until you enter the room to see them.

C. M. Chapman is the artist who created this unique collection of fine art photography. His body of work has earned two juror's awards and has been shown in over a dozen juried exhibitions from Seattle to Washington, D.C.  Now he has the opportunity to share his fine art with the local community.

ARTIST STATEMENT
My camera is the time machine by which I explore the world of Miss Margaret E. Lang as a young adult, circa 1930.  This body of work began several years ago when Margaret's belongings were found, by a friend, abandoned outside of her vacant home on garbage night.  A school teacher from Rochester, NY, Margaret died the day before Valentine's Day at the age of eighty–five without any children, spouse or relatives to remember her.  Because we had never met,  my experience of Margaret's life comes from the meticulously kept photos, letters, travel souvenirs and notes from her early adulthood; from these personal documents inspiration for this work was born.

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I am attempting to convey the loss of individuals, whose stories go untold to future generations, their worldly goods sold off, or abandoned to landfills across America.  If in conveying a loss, I am also trying to raise questions about documenting the past along with the relationships between text and image nostalgia and history.


Rememoration will be on display for the month of August at the Blue Z Coffee House, 127 South Main Street Newtown, CT 06470  (203) 364-0631. The opening is this coming Friday evening, August 6, 2010 from 6:00–9:00 P.M . 

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A-Z Museum Services, curator, Adam W. Zuckerman provided design and installation services for the opening of Rememoration. (AdamZ@A-ZMuseumSvc.com)

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