Friday October 17 from 5-9pm – RedLine Milwaukee will celebrate Junkyard Essays, a solo exhibition for Stacy Gibboni with a closing reception on Milwaukee’s Gallery Night. This event is free and open to the public.
Junkyard Essays, a photo essay installation, is a mixed media project incorporating images and stories from a salvage yard in New Jersey. The project was born from three things: an admiration for the art of the workingman, the nature of storytelling in all its various forms, and simple curiosity.
In 1999, Gibboni went to a junkyard in her native state of New Jersey, the birth of Junkyard Essays and the graveyard for discarded accidents. “An accident is a catalyst which forces change whether that change be positive or negative,” states Stacy of the work. Junkyard Essays presents an ongoing an evolving project, incorporating snapshot photography, video, and audio performance revolving around the art of the narrative as much as that of the photograph.
Stacy Gibboni, a painter and photographer, is an American multimedia artist working in Venice, Italy. A graduate of The Savannah College of Art and Design and New York University, Gibboni has exhibited her work internationally since 1989. Her work on collaborative projects focuses on process, relationship, installation, video and dialog. Stacy’s work includes concepts stemming from daily life: illegible diaries, woman’s work, documentation of dying things and the art of the workingman.
