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San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

July 17 - September 20, 2010

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http://www.sjica.org/
(408) 283-8155

560 South First Street San Jose, CA 95113

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Liz Steketee

A unique print series that uses the artist’s personal family photographs to rewrite history from her vantage point. By choosing unrelated images and digitally manipulating them into unlikely combinations, Steketee builds new memories. She forges new relationships, address old confrontations, imagines different experiences, and faces old demons. “I disrupt linear narratives and recompose events, establishing my family history as a construct,” explains Steketee. “Once these new snapshots have been finalized digitally, they are printed, aged and weathered according to their appropriate time period. This rebuilding of memory has allowed me to establish my own version of reality, as I prefer it.” Reconstructed Memories takes the form of a unique print series as well as a series of reconstructed “false” family photo albums that adhere to the artist’s revisionist history. An Opening Reception will be held on Friday, July 16, 6-8pm Free Admission

Liz Steketee