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Shawn Michienzi

If TVs Watched Us

ICEBOX GALLERY presents: A colorful exhibit entitled If TVs Watched Us by photographer Shawn Michienzi, with captions by Tom Camp and art direction by Warren Johnson. Stark places and empty rooms are connected by the glowing blue eye of a television set found in each image. Route 66, mystery, fiction, and humor all come together in this series of richly colored prints with captions told from the point of view of the TV set.
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Shawn Michienzi
Shawn Michienzi

In If TVs Watched Us, Shawn Michienzi has stepped out of the commercial world and into art; a fictional time and place where nostalgia meets the present. A place entered through a clear and brilliant photograph that simply makes a real place seem unreal. Most images are of empty places, void of people but full of their spirits and alive with the eerie blue glow of the cathode ray tube. The question is posed, "What if TVs Watched Us?" The answers come back in laugh-out-loud captions.

Shawn Michienzi is a perfectionist with a keen eye and all the acquired skills needed to establish himself as a commercial photographer. While working over the years for several national and international advertising agencies, Michienzi has continually been exposed to talented individuals in the field. Two of these individuals collaborated with Michienzi: art director Warren Johnson and copywriter Tom Camp. The three of them have used their collective wit and sense of humor to reveal our American pathos and make it OK to laugh at ourselves.

Gala Opening Reception:
Saturday September 7, 8:00 PM - 12:00 PM

Also Join Us:
Happy Hour Party with Charles and Ed Play Blues; September 28, 6 PM until 9 PM
Exhibit continues through December 21, 2002.


 

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