“Motown’s abandonment was planned and encouraged by federal policy”- Coleman Young, mayor 1974-1994
What happened to the city of Detroit is not unique. The city is mired in the decay that defines it in the national consciousness. This group of photographs is an examination of many things, the failure of an industry, the loss of a city and the devastation of an economy. The abandonment found in these damaged landscapes serves as silent sentries to our neglect.
The oversaturated unnatural colors found in these images are an aesthetic choice, an influence taken from picture postcards. Sadly these are postcards that speak to a different concern, the demise of a great city.
My photographs are a visual investigation of the damage our culture is wreaking on the planet we all inhabit. There is a sense of surreality in these places, once so vital and now abandoned and left to the elements. The imagery is intense and stark and completely unnatural, the perceptible tension created is intentional. My intention is to raise awareness of what our culture allows to occur right beneath our feet.
LYNNDA PARDOE
EDUCATION
2006 M.F.A. Art Institute of Boston-Boston, Massachusetts
Masters degree recipient in Interdisciplinary Studies in conjunction with Lesley University
1987 B.A. University of Massachusetts – Boston, Massachusetts.
Graduated Cum Laude from a double major program
in Studio Art and Art History
ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2004 “Urban Environments”, Laredo Art Center, Laredo, Texas.
1994 “Habitats: Then and Now”, Artlink Gallery, Fort Wayne, In.
1993 “A View from Urban Life”, Berkshire
Artisans Gallery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
1992 “Urban Scenes: New Works”, Strawn
Gallery, Jacksonville, Illinois.
1990 “Light Play”, Room at the Top Gallery,
Columbus Cultural Arts Center,
Columbus, Ohio.
1989 “Photography Today”, Koehnline Gallery,
Des Plaines, Illinois.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 “7th Festival of Documentary Photography, Fotopub, Novomesto, Slovakia
“5th Edition Foto Arte Brasilia, Rio de Janero, Brasil
“urban space”, New Life Shop, Berlin, Germany
“Baseball As Art”, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
“26th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition”, Birmingham
Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, Michigan
“Art in the Dark”, Finite Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
2006 “fear”, Projekt 30 Gallery, New York, New York
“Boston Young Contemporaries”, Boston University Art
Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
“June Art Review”, ART Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
2004 “Artists for John Kerry, benefit auction,
1300 Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio.
2003 “32nd Cardinal Valley Exposition”, Ashland
Galleria, Louisville, Kentucky.
“submitted for your approval”, Asterisk Gallery
Cleveland, Ohio
2001 “Temporal Reflections”, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery,
Bristol Community College, Fall River, Massachusetts
“Annual Tremont Juried Show”, Kelly Randall Gallery,
Cleveland, Ohio
“photographic processes III”, Period Gallery,
Omaha, Nebraska
“Visual Statements”, Gallery on the Square,
Danville, Kentucky
2000 “From Where We Stand”, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
”Accessible Expressions”, Franklin Park Conservatory,
Columbus, Ohio (touring exhibition)
“JCC Annual Exhibition”, Jewish Community Center,
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
1999 “4 for Summer”, M.G. Solymos Gallery, Lakewood, Ohio
“Through the Looking Glass”, International Photography
Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (touring exhibition)
1998 “New Development”, Bockrath Gallery,
Cleveland,Ohio
“1998 National Competition Finalists
Exhibition”, Provincetown Art Association
Gallery, Provincetown,Massachusetts
1996 “National Art Show”, John McEnroe
Gallery, New York, New York.
1995 “Ongoing Exhibition”, Visual Harmony
Gallery, Lakewood, Ohio.
WEB GALLERIES
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, Your Gallery
VSA Arts, Washington, DC
Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, Visual Artists Registry
Flickr, www.flickr.com/photos/lynndaphotos
REPRESENTED BY Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michgan
GRANTS
2007 Puffin Foundation
New Work Grant
1991 Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation
Workspace grant in New York City.
1989 Ohio Arts Council
Personal Development Assistance Award.
