The Herndon Gallery at Antioch College is pleased to invite the public to a gallery reception and presentation by photographer/digital montage artist Stephen Marc on Friday, July 11, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. in the Herndon Gallery.

Marc will discuss his use of archival documents and images as well as extensive research in his creative process. Marc constructs compelling layered narratives made up of his panoramic photographs of historical landscapes interwoven with found remnants of the past — racially charged caricatures and cartoons, trade cards, illustrations and slave documents. The results are challenging, visually charged images of the places and remnants of the African Diaspora. In his artist statement, Marc writes, “My work is an interpretive relocation of, and commentary on, the limited representations and accounts of the black experience, into the early years of the 20th century, that were usually defined from outside the community. My intent is to allow the haunting of the past to symbolically resurface providing a layered contextualization of what was….”

Marc is one of two highly established artists invited to anchor the current exhibition, Unpacking the Archives: Frameworks for Change—Activate Now!, co-curated by Dennie Eagleson, former creative director of the Herndon Gallery, and Raewyn Martyn, visiting professor of visual arts at Antioch College.

Marc, winner of the Gibbes Museum 2009 Factor Prize for Southern Art, earned his MFA from Temple University in 1978 and is a professor of art at Arizona State University, having previously taught at Columbia College in Chicago for more than 20 years. Marc’s work has been featured in many exhibitions including Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art at the Gibbes in 2008; Constellation, an invitational exhibition of the Center for Photography at Woodstock; and three exhibitions which were accompanied by book publications.

Filmmaker, Ken Jacobs’ work co-anchors the archive-rich exhibition. Jacobs, a pioneer in the creative use of archival images, is one of few living artists whose work has been recognized by the Library of Congress as a part of the National Film Registry. A distinguished professor emeritus and founder of the cinema department at SUNY Binghamton, Jacobs’ work has shown at MOMA, the Louvre and the Getty Center.

For more information, please contact Raewyn Martyn at rmartyn@antiochcollege.org or Jennifer Wenker, creative director at Herndon Gallery at jwenker@antiochcollege.org.

The Herndon Gallery is located on the first floor of South Hall on the campus of Antioch College. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 1:00–4:00 p.m. and for special events as posted.