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In the Modifications series, found photographs of unfamiliar and conflicted places go through a process of selection and erasure. By simply painting on enlarged color photographs with clear acrylic and then bleaching the image with household Clorox bleach, new and abstract meanings are created from these family snapshots, travel photographs, and casual documentations.
I am constantly trying to force the medium to function outside of its initial utility and use its malleable nature as a way of coming to an ulterior understanding of the complex and the unfamiliar. This new reading attempts to shift and expand the limits on how we perceive and understand the fragmented world in which the photograph attempts to represent. —Curtis Mann
Curtis Mann received his MFA in Photography from Columbia College in Chicago in 2008 and received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Dayton in 2002. His recent photographic work helped him receive SPE's top student award, the Crystal Apple in 2006, a Follett full tuition fellowship from Columbia College Chicago, three Albert P. Weisman Memorial Project Grants and a Godowsky Award from the PRC at Boston University. Curtis had a solo exhibition of his Modifications series at the Kusseneers Gallery of Antwerp, Belgium and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and is included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, New York.
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