Hope Greene
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Crystal Cork Art Quarterly No. 7 presents:
Hope Greene : Dissolution
Where: The Crystal Cork Wine Shoppe, 219 W. 1st Street, Dixon, IL
When: February 5, 2010 - May 2, 2010
Artist Reception: Friday, February 5, 2010 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
BIOGRAPHY
Hope Greene was born in Maryland. She studied photography at the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois and at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, graduating in 2001. Since that time she has worked as a freelance
photographer, living and working in the Unites States in Philadelphia, in the United
Kingdom near Leeds, and in Italy near Siena. Her photographs have been exhibited
internationally. Hope has now returned to her native United States where she
currently lives in Illinois, continuing to develop and exhibit a growing body of work.
STATEMENT
“Dissolution” is a series of photographs depicting the ruins of monasteries forcibly
closed and stripped by Henry VIII during the English Reformation in the sixteenth
century. The shells of some of these great buildings still stand, scattered across the
country. While living in England, I became drawn to these complex sites with their
strong resonance of sacredness echoing against the evidence of ancient violence
and present ruin. This series explores the thinning of barriers between rational
design and chaotic decay, between certainty and confusion, memory and
imagination, searching among the dissolving forms for the fleeting moment of
understanding.
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Crystal Cork Art Quarterly No. 7 presents:
Hope Greene : Dissolution
Where: The Crystal Cork Wine Shoppe, 219 W. 1st Street, Dixon, IL
When: February 5, 2010 - May 2, 2010
Artist Reception: Friday, February 5, 2010 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
BIOGRAPHY
Hope Greene was born in Maryland. She studied photography at the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois and at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, graduating in 2001. Since that time she has worked as a freelance
photographer, living and working in the Unites States in Philadelphia, in the United
Kingdom near Leeds, and in Italy near Siena. Her photographs have been exhibited
internationally. Hope has now returned to her native United States where she
currently lives in Illinois, continuing to develop and exhibit a growing body of work.
STATEMENT
“Dissolution” is a series of photographs depicting the ruins of monasteries forcibly
closed and stripped by Henry VIII during the English Reformation in the sixteenth
century. The shells of some of these great buildings still stand, scattered across the
country. While living in England, I became drawn to these complex sites with their
strong resonance of sacredness echoing against the evidence of ancient violence
and present ruin. This series explores the thinning of barriers between rational
design and chaotic decay, between certainty and confusion, memory and
imagination, searching among the dissolving forms for the fleeting moment of
understanding.
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