JCA Signature Series Lecture: Bree Lamb, photographer
Public Lecture: “Double Vision”
Lamb centers her research around the complexities of modern-day image-consumption. Her work examines our shared desires to identify, connect, and indulge through images, while emphasizing the influence of vernacular photography on identity, domesticity, and global consumerism. Her research considers a contemporary moment in which growing technologies have the potential to excite, to quiet, to connect, and to impose. In her current visual practice, Lamb pulls from public caches of social photographs to create new works, siphoning visual information and shifting context to highlight the intersections of commodity, fantasy, and social currency.
As one-half of the mixed-media collaboration, Muscle Memory Collective, Lamb works with ceramicist Joshua R. Clark, pairing referential and uncanny objects and images to create surface visions bound in expectation, excess and desire, offering complex reflections of a capitalist American landscape. Muscle Memory Collective creates bright, glossy facades containing a range of familiar visual cues, allowing the tone of the works to vacillate between adoration and critique.
Bree Lamb is an artist, educator and editor based in New Mexico. She is Assistant Professor of Photography at New Mexico State University, and holds an MFA from the University of New Mexico and a BFA from Pennsylvania State University. She is a Beaumont Newhall/Van Deren Coke Fellow, and is represented by Gallery19 in Chicago. Her work is held in permanent collections at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, the University of Iowa, Arizona State University and the Southwest Center for Research. Recent artist lectures include Colorado College, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the Society for Photographic Education’s West/Southwest Conference and the Las Cruces Museum of Art. For the last six years, Lamb has been the Managing Editor for Fraction Magazine, an online venue for contemporary photography. She has reviewed portfolios at national and international events including Review Santa Fe, Medium Festival of Photography, New England Portfolio Reviews, Mt. Rokko Photography Festival, and Photolucida.