Andrea Modica: From Treadwell to Fountain April 21 — May 26, 2006

For fifteen years we watched her grow up: a cherub faced seven year old sitting at the foot of her mother; a pre-pubescent staring at her frolicking sister in the grass with her boyfriend; a poised odalisque, preening for the camera in her bedroom; a grimacing, teasing and playful obese young woman, who shared herself with the artist and her camera. Through Barbara, Andrea Modica found her focus and collaborator in Treadwell, an acclaimed body of work and book, published in 1996. Treadwell, a town in upstate New York, became the fictitious playground for an extended family who accepted the Brooklyn born Modica (and her 8 x 10" view camera) as a friend.

In 1998, Modica relocated to Colorado. With Barbara more than 1500 miles away, Modica needed a new subject and found herself drawn to a family run slaughterhouse and ultimately the family itself. Like Treadwell, Fountain became a backdrop for a collaboration that took Modica from the floors of the slaughterhouse to the family basement, where a group of children would act out their dreams and experiences for the photographer. Like Treadwell, Fountain granted us access into a rural American family, whose trust in the photographer resulted in images which are both intimate and unnerving, stunning yet unsettling.

Although still living in Colorado, Modica continued to make several trips back to New York to photograph Barbara, who lost her battle with juvenile diabetes in 2001 at the age of 22. Barbara, published in 2004, recorded the final years of Barbara’s life in close-up blurred portraits of a woman passing from one world into another. These pictures, along with images from Treadwell and Fountain, will be on exhibit in “From Treadwell to Fountain.”

All images are available as 8 x 10" platinum/palladium contact prints made in an edition of 20 for $3500.

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