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Special Service Area #31 – Servicing areas on Clark, Damen, Lawrence, Montrose, Wilson and along the Ravenswood corridor. 
The Poetics in Place
Jamie Gannon has been creating works on paper his entire career. Since graduating from the University of Tennessee with a BFA in Printmaking his practice has utilized all the tools available to a modern maker of art including traditional photography, digital photography, intaglio, drawing, painting, and collage. His photographs simultaneously stop time, infuse form, construct memory, and fuel nostalgia. The pictures and paintings are both archive and fabrication, index and icon, an open testament to the way a work of art functions in our contemporary world as both a document and a storyteller.
Defamiliarized Perspectives and Distributed Attention
Documenting “place” is a critically important aspect of Gannon’s work. The precise locations provided with each work add an element of reality that brings into focus the credibility of the original photographs as a recorded archive. Many of the structures found are endangered as time inevitably progresses and their utility wanes. Capturing the subject as completely as possible from all sides is a concerted effort. Presenting the art derived from the original source photos with two sides mirrored gives the viewer an intentionally unfamiliar viewpoint. At the same time the viewer, with prolonged attention, is informed in a way that a single-sided depiction could never provide.
New Constructions
The abstract “new constructions” Gannon creates are an essential extension of the original, documented places. Elements from the physical surrounding landscape and details from a mapped perspective provide inspiration that becomes natural, albeit surprising, visual moments that are based on information from the earth’s collaged reality. Our urban cities, our suburbs, and our farmlands are a giant collage, one that is never truly separated from our built environment.
