Jamie Baldridge

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Jamie Baldridge
Born (1975-05-24) May 24, 1975 (age 49)
New Iberia, Louisiana, United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materLouisiana State University
Occupation(s)Artist, Writer
Known forPhotography, Digital Mixed Media, Video, Short Fiction
Notable workThe Everywhere Chronicles, Almost Fiction, Perpetual Motion, A Pattern of Monstrosity
MovementSurrealism, Magic Realism
Spouse(s)Natalia Prabhoo, 2005-?(Divorced)
Websitejamiebaldridge.com

Jamie Baldridge (born May 24, 1975) is a photographer from Louisiana, USA. He creates highly manipulated surreal tableau vivant photographs.

Life and work

Jamie Baldridge was born in New Iberia, Louisiana on May 24, 1975. He was raised in a very conservative, strict, and traditional Creole Catholic household in the southernmost part of Louisiana.[1] He decided to become an artist at an early age after discovering a picture book entitled 101 Fairy Tales while rummaging through his grandmother's attic. The colourful and fantastic images in the book captured his imagination and engendered in him the desire to re-create the same feeling of wonder in others.[2] He went on to study creative writing, theology, and fine art photography at Louisiana State University where he received both his Bachelor of Fine Art and later his Master of Fine Art degrees. He is currently a professor of fine art at the University of Louisiana.

He is known for creating highly manipulated surreal tableau vivant photographs. Baldridge's work references many literary, philosophical, religious, and artistic themes such as the symbolism and psychology of dream imagery, the frangibility of relationships,[3] altered states of consciousness, Jungian archetypes, and esoteric tales and fables. "He has filtered those loaded fables through his subconscious, tempered them with dystopia, tasty fetishes and research gleaned from the musty stacks of Latin scholarship, and emerged with (a) painterly surrealistic vision."[4] He cites Leonora Carrington, Søren Kierkegaard, Joseph Campbell, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Remedios Varo, Edward Gorey,[5] and the Epic of Gilgamesh as but a few of his varied inspirations. His subjects, usually female, often have their faces and/or heads obscured allowing the viewer greater opportunity for symbolic interpretations of identity and challenging accepted preconceptions about the genre of portraiture.[6] Baldridge's works are often accompanied by narratives written in a very purple and baroque prose which serve to describe the point of peripety represented in the image itself.

A Pattern of Monstrosity

Publications

  • Baldridge, Jamie. The Everywhere Chronicles. New York: 21st Editions, 2008 (Lucie Award)
File:Cover Image of The Everywhere Chronicles by Jamie Baldridge.jpg
The Everywhere Chronicles, 2008
  • Baldridge, Jamie (foreword: Graham Nash). Almost Fiction. San Francisco: Modernbook Editions, 2013
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Almost Fiction, 2013

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Informed Visions Millenia Fine Art Orlando, FL 2008
  • Pilgrims & Peregrines Richard Goodall Gallery Manchester, United Kingdom 2008
  • Dystopia Camara Oscura galeria de arte Madrid, Spain 2009
  • The Everywhere Chronicles Galerie Utrecht Amsterdam, Netherlands 2009
  • Belle Epoque Taylor Bercier Fine Art New Orleans, Louisiana 2010
  • Playing with Arsenic Camara Oscura galeria de arte Madrid, Spain 2013
  • Almost Fiction Modernbook Gallery San Francisco, CA 2013

Two person exhibitions

  • Jamie Baldridge & Adam Farrington Taylor Bercier Fine Art New Orleans, LA 2007
  • Magic Realism Schneider Contemporary Photography Chicago, IL 2009
  • VS. / Jamie Baldridge & Bernhard Buhmann Carbon 12 Gallery Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2012

Selected group exhibitions

  • New Works Taylor Bercier Fine Art New Orleans, LA 2006
  • Contemporarities Honolulu Museum of Contemporary Art Honolulu, HI 2006
  • New Work Taylor Bercier Gallery New Orleans, LA 2008
  • New Works Modernbook Loft Gallery Palo Alto, CA 2008
  • New Acquisitions Millenia Fine Art Time Warner Center New York, NY 2008
  • Summer Show Modernbook Loft Gallery Palo Alto, CA 2009
  • 10 Years Modernbook Gallery Palo Alto, CA 2009
  • New Works PressItOn Gallery Miami, FL 2009
  • Myth, Mystery & Magic Holden Luntz Gallery West Palm Beach, FL 2009
  • New Works Galerie Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands 2009
  • Descubrimientos PHE Complejo el Aguila Madrid, Spain 2009
  • Fantastic North Dakota Museum of Art Grand Forks, ND 2010
  • Nieuwe Werken Morren Gallery Amsterdam, Netherlands 2010
  • Spring Show Richard Goodall Gallery Manchester, U.K. 2010
  • ''Blue Skie'd and Clear Carbon 12 Gallery Dubai, U.A.E. 2010
  • Art Chicago Schneider Contemporary Photography Chicago, Illinois 2011
  • De Zomer Inzameling (Summer Collections) Morren Gallerie Amsterdam, Netherlands 2011
  • India Art Summit Carbon 12 Gallery New Delhi, India 2011
  • Photography Bonham’s of London Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2011
  • Approaching the Unreal Modernbook Gallery San Francisco, CA 2011
  • A Visual Journey Through the Imagination Holden Luntz Gallery West Palm Beach, FL 2012
  • Through a Glass Darkly Stephanie Hoppen Gallery London, U.K. 2013
  • Enigma Brunner Gallery/Shaw Center for the Arts Baton Rouge, LA 2013
  • Decisive Moments Honolulu Museum of Art Honolulu, HI 2013
  • Decisive Moments Honolulu Museum of Art Honolulu, HI 2014
  • MORPHEE II Acte2rivegauche Paris, France 2015

Sources

References

  1. ^ "Robert Adanto's 3D: Darkly Digital and Divine". Robert Adanto.
  2. ^ "Dialogues With Great Photographers" (PDF). Holden Luntz Gallery.
  3. ^ Kalsi, Jyoti (May 18, 2012). "Palette of Concerns". Gulf News (Special to Weekend Review).
  4. ^ Wood, Sura (September 4, 2014). "Whats Up At The Galleries". The Bay Area Reporter. 44 (36).
  5. ^ Baldridge, Jamie. "The Everywhere Chronicles" (PDF). Louisiana State University.
  6. ^ "Faceless Portraits". Artspace.

External links

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