New Work
October 22 – December 4, 2004


Dallas artist, Misty Keasler, will have her second solo exhibition at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery this October/November. Since her last one-person show at PDNB in 2002, she has achieved much acclaim. Keasler is the 2003 recipient of the prestigious national award, the LANGE-TAYLOR Prize. This award is given to a documentary photographer and a writer to collaborate on a project of depth regarding the human experience. It is awarded by the Center for Documentary Arts at Duke University.

The $10,000 award is given annually to encourage collaboration in documentary work in the tradition of acclaimed American photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor.*

Keasler also received the Dallas Museum of Art DeGolyer Grant and was recognized as one of the top 30 young photographers in the world by the national publication, Photo District News.

Her work for the Lange-Taylor Prize will debut in this exhibition. Guatemala City Dump: Life at the Rim illustrates the small community of family dwellings around the city dump. This enormous landfill shows scavenging buzzards, dogs and humans around huge heaps of tossed trash. The people live in small huts around the rim of the dump, some are made of cardboard, and some are more solidly built with cinder block. This document also remains consistent with Misty Keasler's exploration of people's living spaces as she has continued to photograph interiors of orphanages.

Also included in this show will be Keasler’s East Texas series. Photographs of her father's family from a small town east of Dallas show a rustic, almost gothic view of the area. Images of bird hunters and taxidermies, car graveyards, funeral home signage, beauty salons in trailers are all included in the show.

Misty Keasler’s photographs can be found in the following museum collections:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan.

Artist reception Friday, October 22, 2004 from 6 - 8 PM.

*Center for Documentary Studies website
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/l-t/index.html




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