May Lecture Series Ends with Photographer of Nuclear Arsenals
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 9, 2016) — The work of Paul Shambroom, who is known for exploring nuclear weapons, political meetings and even lost pets in his photography, is the subject of the final presentation of the 2015-16 Robert C. May Photography Lecture Series, organized by the University of Kentucky Art Museum. The program begins 4 p.m. Friday, March 11, in the Singletary Center for the Arts. The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the artist's exhibition "Lost," a series of photographs derived from missing pet posters placed by owners in public places, on display through May 22, at the museum. Both the lecture and exhibition are free and open to the public.
Shambroom has frequently focused on issues that are integral parts of our lives but are difficult to examine, such as the manifestation of power in American culture. He spent two years gaining permission to photograph the country’s nuclear arsenals and as many attending small-town municipal meetings photographing elected officials enacting democracy at a grassroots level.
Shambroom's photographs have been exhibited widely and are part of many prestigious collections, including those at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis' Walker Art Center and Atlanta's High Museum of Art. His work has also been published in three monographs: "Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power," "Face to Face with the Bomb: Nuclear Reality After the Cold War" and "Meetings." Shambroom has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Creative Capital Foundation, among others. He is currently on the faculty of the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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