“Culturelux” by John Woodruff | Photographic Performance GalleryTalk
The Photographic Performance was created to feature the works of artist with completed bodies of work and a strong narrative. John Woodruff’s exhibition “Culturelux“ is the final of four performances to be exhibited during Act II 2024. John’s exhibition is discussed in this GalleryTalk.
Artist Statement
When I was a kid in the fifties and early sixties, our babysitter was the TV and we became the “pictures generation”.
Life around the world was brought to us in bits and pieces – a sort of splintered vicarious reality that Marshall McLuhan termed a “global village”. My series entitled “Culturelux” explores this phenomenon by shining a spotlight on modern life/popular culture by creating fragmented image photographs with implied narratives that pine for what may have been lost but also provide a glimpse of what may lie ahead.
John Woodruff, 2024
Bio
John Woodruff was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1954.
He received a BS in biology and a minor in photography from the Hartford Art School in 1979.
Upon graduation he worked for several years at a commercial photography studio photographing products for advertising and industry using 8×10 and 4×5 large format cameras exclusively, In the med eighties he formed an architectural photography studio in which he traveled around the country shooting projects for well known architectural firms.
Throughout his commercial career he also actively created lens based art showing extensively in Hartford, CT, New Haven, CT Western MA, NYC and Portland, ME.
John currently resides in Blue Hill, Maine with his wife Diane and pharaoh hound Lacey.
website: johnhwoodruff.com
instagram: @junowoodruff