Deborah Bright: Artist Talk

Being able to hear such an accomplished artist speak about her work was a very pleasurable and great opportunity. Since Deborah Bright was giving two presentations at the University of Toledo she decided to share on Thursday more of her earlier work rather than the work in the CVA gallery. Her theme was landscape and reclamation. At first I didn't really know much about her work and how it could relate to our Text and Publishing class. Since she is a photographer you would think that unless there are words written on the photo there really is no relation to our class. As she presented her work and explained how it is displayed you realize that text is a large part of her pieces. She talked about how some of her photos were paired with the name of who first owned the land deed of the location she was shooting. She also spoke of her new work briefly and that it is presented with a paragraph or so explaining history behind it. In all her work was very interesting, I just wish we would have been able to see in more detail some of her later work.