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𝙰𝚛𝚝+𝙲𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 ✹ 𝚆𝚎𝚍𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙿𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚓𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚖

* ART PRACTICE

Dispatches from the artist studio, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, 2022

 
 

GINA CLYNE (b. 1983, San Pedro, California) lives & works in Los Angeles. She studied Fine Art Photography at Otis College of Art & Design from 2001-2005. Her art practice circles through the use of photography, assemblage, & writing.

Her work examines the Power of Place, multi-racial/multi-cultural 1st & 2nd generation immigrant identities, & the use of photography as a medium & a tool for memory & meaning-making. Work also includes meditations on the longing to belong, grief, language, & the finding/making of family & home.

Artist offerings are available in limited editions here.

Clyne is an artist collaborator with AMBOS Project (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), founded by Tanya Aguiñiga, a platform for bi-national artists to speak on border issues. From 2016-2018 & 2021, she was the primary photographer creating an archive of images that included artist interventions & documentation of nearly every port of entry (from Tijuana, Mexico/San Diego, CA to Matamoros, Mexico/Brownsville, TX) in an effort to capture the process of collecting the largest survey of border emotion & contribute additional visual perspectives & eduction during a time of misinformation & discrimination.

— SELECTED WORKS BELOW

 

NO SPANISH, 2023

 

Video study

Background film footage, inverted to be viewed as a negative, was captured during my first visit to my motherland of Cuba in 2015. I’m floating on my back in the same ocean that my mother knew all her young life, before fleeing Cuba for the US in the 1970s.

Featured photos are a passport photo of me at 2 years old, a class photo at 6 years old, an ID photo for my tram pass at 11 years old, and finally a school photo for my junior high school ID at 13 years old.

As the alphabet is being recited in Spanish, interwoven with various field recordings I made while exploring Cuba, it is difficult not to recall when 6 year old Gina (second photo featured, red shirt and checkered suspenders) was sent to the Principal’s office for speaking Spanish at a class assembly at my English-speaking school. That day I received the message loud and clear that speaking Spanish in school came with repercussions that could effect my future, which in turn began a decades long journey of assimilation and the binding and sterilization of my multi-racial/multi-cultural identity. Today, I speak with the same fluency as the 6 year old I once was, still stunted and stripped of my mother tongue at almost 40 years old.

This is an ongoing dialogue I have been having as I reach towards a new decade. My wish of becoming a mother is as fresh as the questions I am unearthing and answering since my mother’s passing in 2017.

 

Pastness, 2021

Collected & arranged by Gina Clyne

All photographs are printed to scale and were found both online and offline from 2013- 2021. Arrangements of found photographs, from my found photograph collection, of people sitting in their living rooms. This series was started in 2013, but only just finished in quarantine, where images of static interiors and subjects in the company of their couches seemed most intuitive.

Zine: 60 pages
7”x8” full color, saddle stitch
Laser printed on 38# semi-gloss paper
Terracotta 80# cardstock cover
Sienna brown or dusty rose tissue endpapers
Embossed cover title & pasted cover photograph
Limited edition of 45 —SOLD OUT—

 

Prints: 11"x14" full color photo print (unframed)
Printed on deep matte Fuji photographic paper
Limited Edition of 3
Signed & numbered by artist — ACQUIRE HERE —

 

AMBOS (ART MADE BETWEEN OPPOSITE SIDES), 2021 & 2016-2018

 

Selected photographs

Clyne is an artist collaborator with AMBOS Project (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), founded by Tanya Aguiñiga, a platform for bi-national artists to speak on border issues.

From 2016-2018 & 2021, she was the primary photographer creating an archive of images that included artist interventions & documentation of nearly every port of entry (from Tijuana, Mexico/San Diego, CA to Matamoros, Mexico/Brownsville, TX) in an effort to capture the process of collecting the largest survey of border emotion & contribute additional visual perspectives & eduction during a time of misinformation & discrimination.