Location: United States
Gary Jameson’s art has been influenced and inspired by America's past present, recognizing a historical legacy of an American aesthetic. Jameson currently is working on a series of digital images combing locations past with present. Jameson has a BFA degree from the University of Illinois, a MFA degree from Northern Illinois University and is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. He was an Artist-in-Residence at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis from 2009 to 2012. He currently teaches Art History at the College of Southern Maryland.
Apparitions is a series of digital images combing an old photograph of a location with a contemporary photo. The intent is to present the passage of time (progress) and the changes thereof, good or bad.
Image combining past with present. Apparition is photo of the artist's father, circa 1913, combined with contemporary rural scene.
The artist is the son of the farmer's son.
Street scene about 100 years apart in time. Old streetcar apparition with present day Citgo station in background.
The Lovely Wave combines an early 20th century
French postcard from the Nos Jolies Baigneuses
by Léopold-Émile Reutlinger with Jameson’s photograph
of a tanker ship on the Chesapeake Bay.
My recent work has included a series of photographs and digital photomontages that have a perspective on the demise of American farmland through excessive development.
My family history is founded on Midwestern farming, and my imagery incorporates family photographs and public domain photos from the Farm Security Administration the 1930’s with recent photographs that I have taken.
I seek to present a subtle yet poignant visual statement.
Digital photomontage combines my recent photograph of a sub-division with a 1930's FSA photo of a farmer plowing.
APA citation: Vachon, J., photographer. (1938) Cultivating tobacco on one of the Irwinville Farms, Georgia. Georgia United States, 1938. May. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017717205/.
(Once) the Farmer’s Field is a photographic montage of combining part of a 1936 FSA (Farm Security Administration) photo by Charlotte Park, titled Plowing in Maryland with my photograph of a modern Southern Maryland sub-division.
The intent of this image is to present an allegorical reference to the repurposing of land, notably from traditional agricultural use to residential and commercial development, and perhaps to question the profit motive of such repurpose.
Citation for Charlotte Park, FSA photographer:
Park, C., photographer. (1936) Plowing in Maryland. Maryland United States, 1936. Apr. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017760029/
“The Farmer's Son”
“Trolley Stop”
“The Lovely Wave”
“The New Cash Crop”
“(Once) the Farmer's Field”
