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Jamie Baldridge is an American artist and arts educator. He creates highly manipulated and surreal tableau vivant photographs. His subjects often have their faces and/or heads obscured allowing the viewer greater opportunity for symbolic interpretations of identity and challenging accepted preconceptions about the genre of portraiture. Baldridge's works are often accompanied by narratives written in a very purple and baroque prose which serve to describe the point of peripety represented in the image itself. His work, which explores the intersection between technology and fine art, references many literary, philosophical, religious, and artistic themes such as the symbolism and psychology of dream imagery, the frangibility of relationships, altered states of consciousness, Jungian archetypes, and esoteric tales and fables. He cites Leonora Carrington, Søren Kierkegaard, Joseph Campbell, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Remedios Varo, Edward Gorey, and the Epic of Gilgamesh as but a few of his varied inspirations. He received both his BFA and MFA in Photography from Louisiana State University. Born and raised in New Iberia, Louisiana, He is currently Professor of New Media + Digital Art in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Baldridge is represented by Masterpiece Gallery in London and Dubai, Carbon 12 Gallery in Dubai, Camara Oscura Gallery in Madrid, Spain, Morren Galleries in the Netherlands, Acte II Gallery in Paris, and Modernbook Gallery in San Francisco. His work is carried nationally and internationally by a number of other galleries and has been exhibited widely in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, India, and the Middle East. His work and writings have been featured in numerous publications such as ArtNews, Harper's Bazaar, Contemporary Art China, Elle, PublicArt, Photo+, Zoom Photographic Arts, and Oxford American in addition to NPR's All Tech Considered, BBC 2, and in the Documentary Darkly Digital and Divine. He is the author of two books, the 2008 Lucie Award winning The Everywhere Chronicles and Almost Fiction in 2012. Baldridge's work can be found in many collections such as the National Gallery of Art, Collecion Olor Visuale, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Rare Books Collection of the Library of Congress, Cornell University, Louisiana State University's Hill collection, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, University of Notre Dame, University of Colorado at Boulder, Rhode Island Institute of Technology, as well as numerous private collections.
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