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Kathleen
Robbins is an assistant professor and head of photography at
the University of South Carolina.
Robbins grew up in a small town in the Mississippi
Delta.
She received her BA from Millsaps College and an MFA from
the University of New Mexico’s graduate photography program.
Robbins’ work has been widely exhibited, including the 2006
Ping Yao International Photography Festival in Ping Yao,
China, the 2006
International Juried Exhibition at the San Diego Art
Institute’s Museum of the Living Artist. Her work is part of
numerous collections including the Ogden Museum of Southern
Art in New Orleans.
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Of
her current exhibit, The Art Of Arranging Things,
Robbins says:
"The
Art of Arranging Things explores familial obligation and our
conflicted relationship with home. The photographs in this
series weave together my own memories with those of my friends
and family, combining a sense of personal history with a
broader visual concept of the American South. While many areas
of the southeast are beginning to resemble any other place,
the Mississippi Delta refuses to assimilate. It remains
profoundly eccentric. I return to Mississippi often to
photograph, and when I go back I lose my sensibilities. I
forget how long I have been gone and which life I am living.
Mine or my mother’s? My mother’s mother? Some ancestor I
only know from photographs?"
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