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Football Sled Monument, Gettysburg, PA, 2006, Digital C-Print

“…our entire social system has little by little begun to lose its capacity to retain its own past, has begun to live in a perpetual present and in a perpetual change that obliterates traditions of the kind which all earlier social formations have had in one way or another to preserve.”

Fredric Jameson
“Postmodernism and Consumer Society”

My color photographs and video are part of an ongoing exploration of culturally significant landscapes. At Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where the pivotal engagement of the American Civil War was fought in July of 1863, I began my work with a walking tour of the battlefield monuments, referring occasionally to the National Park Service map. However, along the periphery, my understanding of the past became dislodged as I encountered contemporary, commercially manufactured forms that seemed to function as monuments in their own right. I searched for a way to reconcile my understanding of the past with those present day elements.

Historians have written that the Civil War defined America as a modern industrial nation; and that perspective became important to the direction of my project. It seemed likely that the legacy of Gettysburg was to be found not so much among battlefield monuments to the heroic dead as among contemporary forms in close proximity. Using multiple photographs of those forms, I mapped the terrain according to my own experience and built a visual composite that might facilitate new interpretations of Gettysburg. Each viewer’s historical understanding and expectations of the location will play a vital role in interpreting my work, which is a negotiation of how much of the past we might retain in the present.

Bryan Hiott

1966 born in Greenville, SC, United States

Lives and works in New York City,

Education

Parsons The New School For Design, New York, NY. MFA, Photography and Related Media, 2006.

Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC. BA, Philosophy (cum laude), May, 1988.

Solo Exhibitions

2002

“Southern Landscapes,” Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY. By invitation of the Portfolio Review Committee.

2001

“The Southern Landscape,” Sandor Teszler Gallery of Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC. Curated by Oakley Coburn.

Group Exhibitions

2007

"Ruburbs and Other Spaces in Between," The Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA. Curated by Quinn Gorman and Sage Rogers.

“Flatfiles,” Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Joe Amhrein.

2006

“Parsons MFA Thesis Exhibition,” Peer Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Anthony Aziz.

2005

“Society For Photographic Education Conference,” Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY. Curated by Jim Ramer.

2004

“Of North To South,” Museum of Photography, Rafaela, Argentina. Curated by Delia Tolz.

2003

“Looking South: Luminism and the Narrative in Photography,” 70 NW Photography Gallery, Milford, PA. Curated by Kevin Downs.

2002

“Snapshot,” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. Curated by Jessica Hough.

2001

“Out of Darkness Into Light, “ Episcopal Church & The Visual Arts, Online Exhibition. Curated by Krystyna Sanderson.

2000

“18th Annual National Juried Exhibition,” Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY. Juror: Philip Brookman.

“Flatfiles,” Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Rebecca Smith and Simone di Laura.

“4th Annual Williamsburg Salon,” Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Carol Quint.

1999

“Moving Into Outside,” Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Marni Kotak.

“Apocalypse 1999,” Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY.

Collections

Museo de la Fotografia, Rafaela, Argentina.
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY.

Bibliography

“The Changing Southern Landscape,” Wofford Today, Summer 2001.

“ Images Of A Vanishing Lifestyle,” The Greenville News, Greenville, SC, 6/10/01.

“Photos Reflect Changing Southern Landscape,” Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, SC, 5/6/01.

Bryan Hiott

Pierogi 2000
177 North 9th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-599-2144

917-557-4925
hiottb@mac.com
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