J Stacy Utley
Mixed Media | Paintings | Photography
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Series | Any City, AMERICA
Any City, AMERICA
Through the placement of portable objects in urban spaces, my work addresses the social process of gentrification. It is a catalyst in the discussion on the implication of change in an existing context through urban renewal or gentrification. I simulate this process by taking my own ambiguous yet familiar portable objects –miniature houses that serve as architectural prototypes-- and placing them in urban spaces. Painted white, the houses are symbolic, metaphoric, allegorical, evocative and ambiguous. Their juxtaposition in the context of apparent urban renewal is an uncanny co-existence of the old and new, certainty and uncertainty, the past, the present, or the unknown. Photographing this juxtaposition in context gives the portable object equivalence to its surrounding in both scale and effect. In reality, however, small in scale and ambiguous, the object becomes a signifier for change.
1537 Camden Road
Series| Any City, AMERICA
Installation, photography
18x24 inches
2013
Available
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Chadwick
Series| Any City, AMERICA
Installation, photography
18x24 inches
2013
Available
All artwork is copyrighted by the artist
609 & 613 Cherry Street
Series| Any City, AMERICA
Installation, photography
18x24 inches
2013
Available
All artwork is copyrighted by the artist
Cherry
Series| Any City, AMERICA
Installation, photography
18x24 inches
2013
Available
All artwork is copyrighted by the artist
1328 West 6th Street
Series| Any City, AMERICA
Installation, photography
18x24 inches
2013
Available
All artwork is copyrighted by the artist
Friday, May 23, 2014
Series | Past & Pretense
Two Sisters
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media
72x36 inches
2010
Available
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Series | Past & Pretense
Chavis Heights, Number 13 Bus Stop
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media
Size:
2011
Sold
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What D Say
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media
Size:
2011
Sold
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Pride
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media
Size:
2011
Sold
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Service
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media
Size:
2011
Sold
All work is copyrighted by the artist.
Repass
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media
Size:
2011
Available
All work is copyrighted by the artist.
Series | Past & Pretense
Uptown Twilight, Charlotte Democratic National Convention
Series| Past and Pretense
Collage/ Mixed Media
24x36 inches
2012
Sold to Johnson C Smith University
All work is copyrighted by the artist.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Series | Past & Pretense
Chavis Heights
Series| Past and Pretense
Medium: Collage/ Mixed Media
Size:
2011
Sold
All work is copyrighted by the artist.
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