Jamie Baldridge

Jamie Baldridge (born May 24, 1975) is an American photographer and arts educator. He creates highly manipulated and surreal tableau vivant photographs. He is currently a professor of Photography in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.[1]

Jamie Baldridge
Born (1975-05-24) May 24, 1975
New Iberia, Louisiana
NationalityAmerican
Alma materLouisiana State University
Known forPhotography, Digital Mixed Media, Arts Educator
MovementSurrealism, Magic Realism
SpouseBrooke Beduze Baldridge
Websitejamiebaldridge.com

Life and work

Jamie Baldridge was born and raised in New Iberia, Louisiana on May 24, 1975.[2][3] He was raised in a conservative, Catholic household.[4][5] He went on to study at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge where he received both his Bachelor of Fine Arts and later his Master of Fine Arts degree.[1][6]

He is known for creating highly manipulated surreal tableau vivant photography. Baldridge's work references many literary, philosophical, religious, and artistic themes such as the symbolism and psychology of dream imagery, the frangibility of relationships,[7] altered states of consciousness, Jungian archetypes, and esoteric tales and fables. "He has filtered those loaded fables through his subconscious, tempered them with dystopia, tasty fetishes and research gleaned from the musty stacks of Latin scholarship, and emerged with (a) painterly surrealistic vision."[8] He cites Leonora Carrington, Søren Kierkegaard, Joseph Campbell, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Remedios Varo, Edward Gorey,[9] and the Epic of Gilgamesh as but a few of his varied inspirations. 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.[10] 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.

He was named by Oxford American magazine in 2012, one of the new "100 superstars of Southern art".[11]

A Pattern of Monstrosity

Publications
  • 2008 – The Everywhere Chronicles (artist photography book with writings). Jamie Baldridge. New York: 21st Editions[12][13]
  • 2013 – Almost Fiction. Jamie Baldridge (artist photography book with foreword by Graham Nash) San Francisco: Modernbook Editions[14]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • 2008 –Informed Visions, Millenia Fine Art Orlando, Orlando, Florida[15]
  • 2009 – Dystopia, Camara Oscura galeria de arte Madrid, Spain[16]
  • 2009 – The Everywhere Chronicles, Galerie Utrecht, Amsterdam, Netherlands[17]
  • 2010 – Pilgrims & Peregrines, Richard Goodall Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom[18]
  • 2010 – Belle Epoque, Taylor Bercier Fine Art New Orleans, Louisiana[19]
  • 2013 – Playing with Arsenic, Camara Oscura galeria de arte, Madrid, Spain[20]
  • 2013 – Almost Fiction, Modernbook Gallery, San Francisco, California[21][22][23][24]

Two-person exhibitions
  • 2007 – Jamie Baldridge & Adam Farrington, Taylor Bercier Fine Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • 2009 – Magic Realism, exhibition with Sergio Fasol, Schneider Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois[25]
  • 2012 – VS., exhibition with Bernhard Buhmann, Carbon 12 Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates[26]

Selected group exhibitions
  • 2011 – India Art Summit, Carbon 12 Gallery, New Delhi, India[27]
  • 2013–2014 – Decisive Moments, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii[28]
  • 2015 – MORPHEE II, Acte2rivegauche, Paris, France[29]

References
  1. Tasini, Sara (2013). "Dialogues With Great Photographers" (PDF). Holden Luntz Gallery.
  2. Bookhardt, D. Eric (2007-04-03). "Art Review: Image Conscious". Gambit. Gambit Communications, Inc. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  3. "Jamie Baldridge Bio". Baton Rouge Gallery. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  4. "Robert Adanto's 3D: Darkly Digital and Divine". Robert Adanto.
  5. "Jamie Baldridge: "If I weren't a photographer, I would be involved in espionage, gay porn or blacksmithing"". The Eye of Photography. 2017-02-09. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  6. "Jamie Baldridge Biography". ArtNet.com. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  7. Kalsi, Jyoti (May 18, 2012). "Palette of Concerns". Gulf News (Special to Weekend Review).
  8. Wood, Sura (September 4, 2014). "Whats Up At The Galleries". The Bay Area Reporter. 44 (36).
  9. Baldridge, Jamie. "The Everywhere Chronicles" (PDF). Louisiana State University.
  10. "Faceless Portraits". Artspace.
  11. "100 Under 100: The New Superstars of Southern Art". Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  12. "Baldridge". 21st Editions, The Art of the Book. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  13. "Nel cassetto dei sogni di Jamie di Roberta Zanutto su AI MAGAZINE". 1995-2015.undo.net (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  14. "Almost Fiction (Regular Edition)". modernbook.com. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  15. Emmons, Mary Frances (June 20, 2008). "don't miss: 'informed visions'". Orlando Sentinel Newspaper. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  16. "Jamie Baldridge | Dystopia | 17 septiembre - 31 octubre 2009 | Camara Oscura Galeria de Arte". www.camaraoscura.net (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  17. "Everywhere Chronicles". Fotoexpositie.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  18. "A pilgrimage for art lovers". Manchester Evening News (MEN). 2010-04-18. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  19. "Taylor Bercier Fine Art". PhotoNOLA. 2010. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  20. "Solo Exhibition: "Playing with Arsenic"". ArtDiscover. 2013. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  21. "Modernbook Gallery: Monographs and Fine Art Photography". San Francisco Travel. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  22. Bamberger, Alan (July 11, 2013). "San Francisco Art Galleries , First Thursday Art Openings: July 11, 2013, Part II". Art Business. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  23. Anderson, Lamar (2013-10-01). "Up Now: Jamie Baldridge" (PDF). ARTNews. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
  24. "Lamar Anderson | Selected Clips". lamarclarkson.com. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  25. "Magic Realism at Schneider Gallery". Chicago Art Magazine. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  26. "Duo exhibition of Jamie Baldridge and Bernhard Buhmann: Versus – Dubai". www.pbart.com. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  27. "India Art Summit 2011 | Carbon 12 Gallery". Carbon 12 Gallery. 2011-01-20. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  28. "Decisive Moments: Photographs from the Collection of Cherye R. and James F. Pierce". Honolulu Museum of Art. 2013. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  29. "Morpeus II". Acte2rivegauche Gallery (in French). 2014. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
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