Photographic Memory by Kris Graves

Three artists (Luke Abiol, Jason Hanasik & MaryLynne Wrye) are asking the question: What can the "photograph" capture? his project will only be funded if at least $18,000 is pledged by Fri, Jun 20 2014 5:00 PM EDT. To help: www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
Luke Abiol, Jason Hanasik, and MaryLynne Wrye have produced three very distinct projects which intersect with this question and the notion of the document in unexpected and surprising ways. +Kris Graves Projects is delighted to be able to bring their projects to the world via thoughtfully designed (by Daniel Salemi) and beautifully executed monographs. These monographs and prints are the perfect addition to your art collection.
Luke Abiol's project Winter's Berlin, is a series of large format photographs made over a period of seven years while living in Germany. These photographs look into the history that saturates Berlin's structures and streets. Abiol is particularly interested in the layers of the city that - when peeled away - introduce the viewer to countless traces of Berlin's inhabitants. Stories are derived from space and histories are formed.
Luke Abiol was born in San Francisco, came of age in New York, started a family in Berlin and now finds himself back in San Francisco. Luke observes the traces that industry, war, nature and time have left upon our urban spaces--then leaves his own traces to be read by others.
This monograph will be edited by publisher Sergio A. Fernandez of Iris Editions, Ltd.
Jason Hanasik's project, I slowly watched him disappear, is the first part of Hanasik's opus on the complicated space of military masculinity. This first part focuses on the fantasy of the military body/masculinity seen through the eyes of Sharrod, a NJROTC recruit attending a high school in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Shot over the course of four years, Hanasik's project examines the concerns of Sharrod as he navigates his freshman to senior year under the watchful (and sculpting) eye of the military machine.
Jason's book will also include an essay by Aaron Belkin. Belkin is a scholar, author, activist and dancer. He has written and edited more than twenty five scholarly articles, chapters and books, the most recent of which is a study of contradictions in American warrior masculinity and the ways in which smoothing over those contradictions makes U.S. empire seem unproblematic.
Jason Hanasik has an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BFA Summa Cum Laude from the State University of New York at Purchase. Hanasik's work has been shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize and the Smithsonian's Outwin Boochever Portrait Prize. He was one of the 2011 Magenta Foundation US Winners and he has exhibited his work at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, as well as widely across the United States.
The creative act of the explorer involves recognition, seeing via what we have already seen. Poet Denise Levertov says organic poetry, "is a method of apperception, i.e., of recognizing what we perceive.... Such a poetry is exploratory."
MaryLynne Wrye's Journey is the poetic and photographic document of a trip that became a journey, both into memory and into mystery. This is an allegory for every journey, a practice of recognition, but also a witness to the transformation that must result. Every explorer must return changed.
MaryLynne Wrye was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and resides in New York. She earned her MFA from University College London. Wrye was awarded the Patty Smith Poetry Prize from Stanford University upon graduating with a BA in English Literature and Poetry.
Gravelle and I have produced two successful campaigns in consecutive years. We are confident with our timeframe and will be able to deliver on schedule. All prints will be made and signed by the artists in advance, and the books will be signed as soon as we receive shipment. Thank you for your time.