Gregory Spaid Photography and Other Projects
Gregory Spaid
Leaf Cuttings Pedestrians Fire Machine in the Garden videos Songs of Madison Avenue videos Noisy Nights Ajo Reading Trees Seeing Red Image / Object Nantucket Derby Day Portraits Rural America New York City Drawings Star Tree Paintings Coloring Very Short Stories
Image / Object

     In this series of photo-assemblages I want to set the illusion of reality in the image against the actual reality of the object. I want also to expand the range of the work I do with conventional photography on rural America.

Gregory Spaid, 2023
Striped Building, 1991 (wood, acrylic, silver print), 49" x 38" x 2"
Cemetery Building, 1991, (wood, acrylic, silver print), 49" x 38" x 2"
6 Roads Home, The Great Plains,1998, (plywood, brass, nails, handcolored silver prints), 21" x 15" x 15'
12 Roads Home, Knox County Ohio,1997, (brass, wood, hinges, silver prints), 12" x 77" x .5"
Some Small Buildings, 1998, (liquid emulsion on brushes), 11' x 35" x 2"
Shelf, 1992, (vases, plywood, nails, silver print), 38" x 38" x 6"
Security Systems, 1992 (keys, nails, plywood, silver print), 38" x 38" x 2"
"X", 1991, (saw blades, plywood, nails, silver print), 38" x 38" x 2"
"V", 1992, (brushes, plywood, nails, silver print), 38" x 38" x 4"
Painted Desert, 1992, (soiled brushes, wire, nails, plywood, silver print), 38' x 38" x 2"
The Great Divide, 1991, (plywood, ax, hinges, nails, silver print), 76" x 38" x 3"
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