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In her explorative Hair Pieces<\/em>, photographer Rebecca Drolen calls us to consider the place of beauty, of standards, of hair<\/em> within the context of our society. Through self-portraiture Drolen captures a dynamic collection of images that focus on the roles we place on hair. Her approach is both surreal and tongue-in-cheek. \u201cThe imagery and symbolism\u00a0of hair as strength (mythologically) or beauty and sexuality in contemporary culture, seemed to be such a fruitful\u00a0territory to spend time making within,\u201d Drolen explains.<\/p>\n Hair Pieces <\/em>considers the juxtaposition of body hair, the desirable and the disgraceful. In a much broader sense it offers a social critique of identity and self-image in a contemporary context.<\/p>\n One of the collection\u2019s photographs, \u201cLonger Lashes,\u201d Drolen crosses humor with horror; her jarring, hyperbolic response to the question of when unrealistic feminine standards turn sour.\u00a0 \u201cThe theme that I am most interested in is that we have so many double standards for hair,\u201d says Drolen. \u201cWe cultivate and embrace hair in some areas of our bodies (indeed we sometimes feel like we cannot have enough), while we compulsively remove and hide that we have hair on other parts of our bodies.\u00a0 We enter cycles of growth and removal that seem to be a shared exercise in frustration and futility – it keeps growing back.\u201d<\/p>\n Hair Pieces<\/em> probes the questions of that tension from a fresh and unyielding perspective. A comprehensive meditation, the collection is Drolen\u2019s first major work in her post-graduate career.<\/p>\n “Toe Hair” mixed media 1.5″ x 1.5″<\/p>\n The collection Hair Pieces<\/em> in on view in conjunction with the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) National conference, held in Philadelphia this year, March 1-4. The SPE is a nonprofit organization that aims to promote a larger, more comprehensive understanding of the medium public programs and service.<\/p>\n ~ Nick Crouse \u201819 “Haircut” 30 x 90″<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rebecca’s Artist Talk 3\/1\/18 “Shearing” 30 x 30″ In her explorative Hair Pieces, photographer Rebecca Drolen calls us to consider the place of beauty, of standards, of hair within the context of our society. Through self-portraiture Drolen captures a dynamic collection of images that focus on the roles we place on hair. Her approach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2017-2018-exhibitions","category-archived_exhibitions","category-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"rsz_h545_4_24\"](\"http:\/\/rebeccadrolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/rsz_h545_4_24.jpg\")
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