Charming, chaotic scenes of family life in small-town America blend reality with fiction
By Jacqui Palumbo
In Julie Blackmon's photographs, her quiet neighborhood in Springfield, Missouri, is transformed into a theatrical stage where children reign. They gather poolside in the balmy summer; direct talent shows in the garage; and prepare to take flight off of kitchen chairs, leaving toys and household ephemera strewn about. Adults, when they do appear, are often cropped out of frame, obscured like the unintelligible grownups of Charlie Brown's world.
The artist has lived in Springfield her entire life, calling her home city in the Ozarks region the "generic American town."
Blackmon's forthcoming show at Fotografiska, "Fever Dreams," plays on fiction and reality.
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