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Julie Blackmon (American, born 1966) has centered her life and career in and around Springfield, Missouri. This exhibition focuses on the last decade of her photographic practice showing scenes depicting family, community, and landscape deeply rooted in the artist’s Midwestern cultural heritage. The conflation of art and life—particularly the everyday life of her family at home in Missouri—has been the continued subject of her photographic work. Blackmon uses her surroundings to engage broader ideas of family dynamic, social space, and art historical references. Her photographs are inspired by growing up in a large family in what she calls “a generic town in the middle of the U.S.” While her scenes feature the artist’s family and are inspired by the realities of everyday life, her works are conceptual, fictitious, and highly directed to comment on common themes of contemporary life. Her multi-dimensional scenes combine portraiture and narrative and explore the complexity of broad subjects like play and wonder.

This exhibition is organized by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

Julie Blackmon

Julie Blackmon, (American, borrn 1966), Records, 2021, archival pigment print.