Gloria DeFilipps Brush

Gloria DeFilipps Brush lives in Duluth, Minnesota, where she is Professor of Photography in the Department of Art & Design at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Born in Chicago, she earned the M.F.A. degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Brush has received artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Midwest, the Minnesota State Arts Board, Polaroid Corporation, and the Bush and McKnight Foundations. Her work has been published in Leonardo, Zoom Inter-national, American Photographer, Darkroom Photography, Lightworks, Angeles, Harper's, and Viewcamera magazines, and in Naomi Rosenblum's book A History of Women Photographers.

Her photographs have been included in exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Cologne Photokina, SIGGRAPH, D-Art at the University of London, the BrasÌlia Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Print Club in Philadelphia, Clarence Kennedy Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Silver Image Gallery in Seattle, The Ansel Adams Center in San Francisco, the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, among many others.

Artist Statement:
My evolving series Reconstituting uses an opened book as the recurring connotative premise and arena for interactions of language, objects, and pictures.

The book itself as object is multivalent, its meaning shifting with the expectations and framing of the reader. The relationship between fact and fiction may be altogether evident to one individual, unfathomable to another, or the very distinction seen as irrelevant or non-existent by still others.

The template of an open book, with pages coming before and after, courts habits of thought involving sequence or succession. Two facing pages propose a seemingly inevitable correlation, even if only to mark an end and a beginning.

Reconstituting fuses the innate power of objects with overheard, recorded or sometimes imagined dialogues. Photography’s own uncertain presence as observer is implicit.

To see more of Gloria's work visit her website.