BOOK LAUNCH & RECEPTION
Thursday, January 29, 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Please join me for a Book Launch and Reception celebrating the release of my book Linda Cummings: Slippages on Thursday, January 29, 6:30 pm – 8 pm. at Yale University’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM, 149 York Street, New Haven).
The wine and cheese reception will include an Artist Conversation between myself and Elise R. Morrison, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at Yale, who authored an essay, “Of Slips and Waves,” in the book.
A limited number of advance copies of Slippages are available for the event, but must be preordered by January 27. Books cost $45.00 and may be ordered online under Book: Slippages at lindacummings.com (tinyurl.com/slippagesbook), or from Grey Matter Books by phone at 203-553-3180 or in person at 264 York St, New Haven. Preordered books can be picked up, and signed, at the event.
The event, sponsored by Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), is free and open to the public. There is meter parking on the street or you can park across the street at the Chapel-York Garage (150 York St) or Crown Street Garage (213 Crown St).
For more information, please visit lindacummings.com or contact the artist at cummingsphoto@gmail.com.
Use this Venmo link to order copies of Linda Cummings: Slippages directly from the artist. Books cost $45.00. Preorders will be signed and available the night of the event.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Slippages is a landmark publication of photographs by Connecticut Shoreline artist Linda Cummings, published by Skira. The book showcases 70 high-quality duotone images spanning the decade between the millennium (1992 to 2002) and the waning of analog photography. Cummings’ compositions toss expectations to the wind, transposing gender dynamics with a slight of hand. The images convey Cummings’ innovative approach to photographic narrative through actions performed and photographed by the artist on site, in locations is varied as steel mills, coal mines, churches, hospitals and stadiums, many long since disappeared. The photographs express the artist defiance, exuberance and anxiety amidst the upheavals of a declining industrial age and dawning of the digital era. Cummings’ thought-provoking photographs are complemented with an introduction and four essays that extrapolate ideas from Cummings’ work and consider how social controversies then resurface today as the rights of bodily autonomy and gender identity continue to be challenged. All photographs were taken on site with an analog 35-mm manual film camera and printed by hand in a dark room with no manipulation post capture. Slippages was recently featured in events at Rome University of Fine Arts and the Tokyo Art Book Fair.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Linda Cummings is an artist / photographer with a studio along the Farm River in East Haven, CT. In addition to her gallery representation in New York City, Cummings has collaborated with the Fred Giampietro Gallery in New Haven, CT, and has created audio–visual photographic exhibitions and installations at the Smilow Cancer Hospital of Yale New Haven. Recent commissioned projects, inspired by Cummings’ interest in perception and natural phenomenon, incorporate trans-illuminated light through large scale installations of photographic glass. Examples of these commissioned projects include the Ark Doors at Temple Beth Tikvah in Madison, CT, a skylit glass photographic artwork installed in the Hope Chapel at Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford, CT and an interior corridor and ceiling artwork of illuminated glass in the newly renovated residential Towers in downtown New Haven, CT.
Linda has held artist talks and presentations of her artwork and philosophy on the intersection of art, creativity and healing at national and international venues including the Whitney Humanities Center of Yale University and the Yale Medical College. She co-authored, with artist Katy Martin, “Beauty, Longing, and Fear” a chapter in the publication Making Sense. Beauty, Creativity, and Healing by Bandy Lee, MD., Nancy Olson, MD. and Thomas P. Duffy, MD. (eds) of Yale University. (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2015)
In addition to her creative art practice, Linda is active on the board of the Friends of the Farm River and Estuary, a local environmental group acting as catalyst for projects engineered to restore ecological health and abundance to the Farm River, which flows from North Branford through East Haven and Branford to the mouth of New Haven harbor.
