Julie Blackmon: Homegrown
”Visual jokes and puns are plentiful. But so are family mysteries, childhood psychodramas and painterly richness.”
— Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times
Co-published with Robert Mann Gallery
Foreword by Billy Collins
Interview by Reese Witherspoon
Hardcover / 11.5 x 13.5 inches
45 color images / 108 pages
ISBN: 9781934435793
Trade: $55
Rare: $150 $500
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Following the sold-out success of Domestic Vacations (Radius Books, 2009), Homegrown captures JULIE BLACKMON’s ever-evolving talent for portraying the tension between the harmony and disarray of domestic life.
The influence of the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Jan Steen is apparent in photographer Julie Blackmon’s kindred sense of humor and colorful attention to the absurd at home. Though playful and entertaining, her depictions provide an analogous observation on the struggle between living in the moment versus escaping to another reality, two opposites that strive to dominate.
Included in this new volume are forty works made from 2009-2014, an interview of the artist by Academy Award winning actress Reese Witherspoon, as well as an insightful introduction by the renowned poet Billy Collins.
