HOME CONNECTION 

Online Exhibition & Print Sale

Jessie Paige Rowe, Julia Vandenoever, Stephanie A. Lindsey, & Katie Harwood

March 13 - April 9, 2017

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In celebration of Denver's Month of Photography, Home Connection spices-up the fleeting Instagram Takeover and transforms incredible work into something that lasts.

These four female artists access ideas of place, loss, and identity in their work and scratch at the surface of their individual connections to home.  Home Connection unfolds in a unique format -- It utilizes our Instagram feed @bigbadbettiepress and allows each artist to temporarily take it over to share their photographic series.  The exhibition then migrates from the screen to the printed page transforming into a collectable handmade Print Set, which includes one signed print from each artist.   

Launching the take over with her own daily act of picture making is Jessie Paige Rowe. Paige Rowe explores the day-to-day life of her two young daughters and has compiled an incredible collection that echoes the complexities and wonders of childhood.  Julia Vandenoever delicately uncovers an unusual inheritance, her mothers used tissues, and through her grieving process imagines the untold stories hidden in the folds of each tissue.

Stephanie A Lindsey contemplates the psychological and domestic space she faced after a loss and weaves a subtle yet complex narrative together that focuses on issues of place, family and race in American society.  Katie Harwood investigates her relationship with her childhood home focusing on an annual spring cleaning event that Harwood describes as a “ritual purging”, finding links between her personal family history and the “annual airing of dirty laundry.”

Month of Photography Denver is a biennial celebration of fine art photography with hundreds of collaborative public events throughout the region.  Learn more here.

Limited edition handmade Print Set available only during exhibition:

  • 4, 5.5” x 7.5”, unbound archival inkjet prints printed on fine art photographic paper and signed by each artist (1 print from each artist)
  • A title card including exhibition and artist information printed on acid free paper
  • A list of co-publishers printed on acid free paper
  • A folded poster of the entire online exhibition
  • Edition size: 40, numbered

People who pre-order help to unlock the Print Sets production and become “co-publishers”. Their names will appear in print and forever be part of the collectable

Note: 20 pre-sales must be reached during the exhibition. If reached, the Print Set goes into production and will be shipped to our co-publishers within 2-3 months after the close of the exhibition.  If not reached, no Print Set will be made.

Image details:

Lucy. Peek-A-Boo. 1-10-17, 2017, Jessie Paige Rowe. Archival Pigment Print.  4.5" x 4.5" image on 5.5" x 7.5" paper. Printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Satin, 310 gsm 100% Cotton, white, satin-finish. Signed.

Tissue 20, Julia Vandenover. Archival Pigment Print.  4.5" x 5.5" image on 5.5" x 7.5" paper.  Printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Satin, 310 gsm 100% Cotton, white, satin-finish. Signed.

Untited, Stephanie A. Lindsey. Archival Pigment Print.  4.5" x 5.5" image on 5.5" x 7.5" paper.  Printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Satin, 310 gsm 100% Cotton, white, satin-finish. Signed.

Green Chair, Katie Harwood.  Archival Pigment Print.  4.5" x 5.5" image on 5.5" x 7.5" paper.  Printed on Canson Satin Baryta 310 gsm, Pure White. Signed.