Dominique Gustin | UnNatural Light | Elizabeth Rowland Mayor Gallery | Opening reception: Friday, October 18, 5-7 PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, November 16, 4-5 PM
Dominique Gustin’s artistic practice has evolved alongside technological advances, and while she has embraced these tools, her role as a parent has heightened awareness of their implications. The concept of “screen time” has been a focal point of concern, raising questions about its effects on our well-being, relationships, and awareness of our tangible surroundings. Driven by a growing sense of technology and online content consumption that are altering our lives – causing a collective “untethering” to the physical world and increased inattention to the spaces we inhabit– her work fully exposes and embraces the digital deluge. A multimedia installation, UnNatural Light presents a tableau of projected photographic stills juxtaposed with elements of home and the natural world in an uncluttered, darkened space. Each of the digitally manipulated portraits employs dramatic light and shadow to create heightened visual narratives, inviting the viewer to examine where–and how–their attention is placed in an age increasingly dominated by digital immersion.
Dominique Gustin | Biography
Dominique Gustin is a multi-disciplinary artist and sometimes poet, whose work traverses the mysterious and familiar to form evocative visual narratives and spaces. Her digital photography and video shorts are frequently released on Instagram (@dominiqueartspace), including “Evolution” and “Volitant” (2023). She was invited to create work, a poetry/instruction installation titled “Immersive Gratitude Piece,” for the FluxFest at the Champlain College Art Gallery (2023). The digital photography series UnNatural Light won the 2022 International Photography Award (IPA) 3rd prize for non-professional – editorial/press, contemporary issues. Her work has also been exhibited at The Current, Studio Place Arts, Susan Calza Gallery, S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Spruce Peak Arts Center, and AVA Gallery and Arts Center. Her poetry collection “Counting Dreamers” was self-published in 2019 and is available on Blurb.com. Dominique attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has spent over thirty years as an artist and arts professional. She currently lives in Vermont with her husband and their dog, Jackie.
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Instagram: @dominiqueartspace
