AMIMALS ( a requiem)
Photographs by May Mantell
will be on view at the
Johnson Gallery,
of the Christian A. Johnson Memorial Art Building,
at Middlebury College
November 2-12, 2007
M-F, 9-5
weekend by appointment
Opening Reception
November 2~~5:30-7:30 PM
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Artist Gallery Talk
November 7, 4:30 PM
Amimals ( a requiem) is an exhibition of large-scale black and white photograhic prints by May Mantell. Dark and poetic many of the images are death portraits of animals in our midst and suggests a skewed relationship between them and us. Many of the images were shot in Addison County.
May Mantell was born in Cloverdale, CA. in 1969. Currently she lives and works in Orwell, VT. May received her BFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from Stanford University. She has taught at Middlebury College, the University of VT, Standford University and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Read a 2006 interview with The Morning News about Animals
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/animals/
for more information visit http://www.maymantell.com/