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| Video still, "And Time Lets Fall Its Drop" by Dawn Roe, 2010 |
July 6--September 7, 2015
Headquarter's Library
151 South Church Street
Spartanburg, SC 29306
“I hate all details of the individual life. But I am fixed here to listen. An immense pressure is on me.
I cannot move without dislodging the weight of centuries.”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves
2009-12
Dawn was a part of the Center for Visual Art's CVA-G documentary project and exhibition, Sense of Place; Picturing Life in West Greenville, which was supported by a One Time Project grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission, as well as The Community Foundation of Greenville, Fraction Magazine and Clemson University.
Dawn Roe works with still photographs and digital video in
both singular and combined forms. She relies upon the reproductive nature of
these media to activate and make visible perceptual inconsistencies between
experienced and recorded time.
Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Visual Voice
Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada; The William King Museum, Abingdon, VA (2014);
The White Box at The University of Oregon, Portland, OR; Clara M. Eagle Gallery
at Murray State University, Murray, KY (2013); Screen Space Gallery, Melbourne,
VIC, Australia (2012); The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL (2010); and
Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR (2009). Her works have also been
exhibited at The Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; The Copenhagen Photo
Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark (2014); The Perth Centre for Photography, Perth,
WA, Australia (2013); The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and
Film, Charlotte, NC (2012); Beam Contemporary, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
(2011); and other venues throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Roe was recently awarded a public art commission from the
Broward County Division of Cultural Affairs, which will result in the
production of a suite of artworks for the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
International Airport. She is also the recipient of awards from The Associated
Colleges of the South/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The United Arts of Central
Florida, The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and The Society for
Photographic Education. Her work has been featured in numerous print and
web-based journals including Oxford American, One One Thousand, and Fraction
Magazine, and she is a contributor to both fototazo, and Urbanautica. She
recently engaged in a long-form interview with Lauren Henkin as part of Tilted
Arc's Women in the Landscape series. As well, a collaborative essay with
Leigh-Ann Pahapill and Lisa Zaher on her Goldfields project was published in
the Routledge print journal, Photographies, in 2013. She recently founded the
public art project window (re/production | re/presentation) and serves as the
curator.
Roe received a BFA from Marylhurst University and an MFA
from Illinois State University. She divides her time between Asheville, North
Carolina and Winter Park, Florida where she serves as Associate Professor of
Art at Rollins College.
