Proof Of Everything And Nothing At All

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September 10 – October 16, 2022
Opening: Saturday, Sep 17, 5:30 – 8pm

PROOF OF EVERYTHING AND NOTHING AT ALL 
Peter J. Ketchum

With found, repurposed photos as a central element, Peter J. Ketchum’s mixed media works are visual meditations on mortality and immortality - on morality and immorality.

For the artist photographs are proof. They are visual evidence of our having been here. Whether an 1850’s daguerreotype, a cabinet card, arcade photo, or a modern selfie, a photo is proof of our existence. It preserves our image and action for future generations.

In making most of these works an enlargement of a found black and white image or graphic was altered by Ketchum. Something was added here or deleted there. He then colored them with acrylics, pens, markers, photo dyes, pencils and/or paint pens, they collaged them into a larger, mixed media work.

“My art is a collaboration with unknown photographers and subjects. The people in the pictures, made anonymous by time and negligence, lived in a moment as impermanent and ethereal as we do. Like all of us, they smiled bravely at the camera… SNAP! CLICK!

And were gone.” Peter J. Ketchum

Brooklyn-based artist Peter J. Ketchum received a degree in fine arts from Colby College, did additional studio work at the School of Visual Arts (NYC), and filmmaking at NYU. His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institute and the Norfolk Historical Society. It has been shown at The Brooklyn Museum, The Bushnell, The Discovery Museum, The Guggenheim Downtown, and The Springfield Museum of Fine Art.

For more information contact hanne@fivemyles.org or visit www.fivemyles.org
​Gallery hours are 1-6pm, Thurs.-Sun.