Artist Statement
In this introspective photography project two photographers living in different parts of the United States turn their cameras in own their own living quarters to examine aspects of domesticity. Tightly cropped images presented in a diptych format reveal unflattering details, ordinary household objects, and an uncanny mirroring to create a dialogue about national identity versus regionalism, proximity versus locality, and space versus place. Process Statement
The images are printed as digital C-Prints at the intimate scale of 4x4 inches each, and placed a quarter of an inch apart on the same piece of 11x14 inch paper. The proximal distance of the spacing allows for a juxtaposition of images to attest to the diversity of American cultures in the depicted environments, which in reality are over 1,000 miles apart.

 

 

Dominic Lippillo earned an MFA in Photography from Ohio University in 2009. In 2010 he was awarded an artist grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission for his project Fifteen Homes. Selections from Anti-local are included in the teaching supplement accompanying Bruce Warren’s textbook Photography: The Concise Guide (2nd Edition, March 2011); included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, CA. His independent work and collaborative work has been shown nationally and internationally. Lippillo is an Assistant Professor of Art at Mississippi State University.