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All openings, unless otherwise specified, occur on the first Friday of every month during the hours of 7:00 – 9:00 pm at Boxcar Books. If you are interested in displaying art at Boxcar Books, please contact the our Art Coordinators, Josh and Amy at art@boxcarbooks.org.

 

Featured Artist May 2010: Justin Clifford Rhody

Last exhibit at Boxcar Books celebrates the photographical art of Justin C. Rhody. Rhody is the mid-sized baggist birthed in flint michigan and now hanging with "divided time": downtown food job plasma-man turned father and daddy. "Life has been seamless", the artist is quoted as saying, "...and painful." Before becoming an unregistered resident of Monroe County, Mr. Rhody was a member of Mckinley Elementary's Honor Roll 1991-1993. And, even before that mud flap of a memory was dipped into the melting rocks of history and our commitment level was forever changed, our protagonist was to be found doing fakie varials off of donny's launch ramp at the very.very tender age of 14 weeks. "Life has been seamless." 



"With a digital-life(r) I don't have to try to hug the whole world's big bodies, cause it's more like sleeping in the dark in a dark crowded room. Getting up and it's dark, and I step on someone who is sleeping in the kitchen. No need to talk it over - all sorts of things are going to happen in your life. Things happen all the time... the blonde hairs sewn into hats and you; immediately begin about something else when they wake up and say: "watch it, I am sleeping in the kitchen. and I am so small. I am the little ball of love and I am hungry." I would do anything for love or to help get a friend out of jail, even things that I don't really want to do (like hiking), but mostly, as a person, I am ust breathing on it... and I am a fan-boy because. I am the box fan, and this is my digital blowing."
               
                                                                        Justin C. Rhody

Rhody's "me and the material girl will be on display at Boxcar Books through Wednesday, June the 2nd, 2010.
Boxcar Books hosted an opening reception for the exhibit on Friday, May the 7th, 2010, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

 


 

Interview with Justin C. Rhody

 

Crisia: How have you discovered first your passion and interest for images?

Justin: My parents made me.

Crisia: What would you like to emphasize through the exhibit, me and the material girl, that you are going to hold at Boxcar Books?

Justin: My spectrum-ed sense of frustration and also a portrait of charles in iowa.
 
Crisia: Who is “you” and who is the “material girl”?
Justin: "you" is me, always. "material girl" is a couple though - there's the one with the child, there's ciccone and then there are about 3 or 4 that you probably don't know about.

 

Crisia: Which are the advantages and the disadvantages of digital photography?

Justin: It's quick and it's cheap, but the disadvantage is that it's stupid too.

 

Crisia: Describe us shortly your digital techniques, your most used Photoshop tool, plug-in, action set etc. 

Justin: I always have to borrow stuff, or else have somebody else do it and then burn me a disc.

Crisia: What gives you ideas and inspires you to create such amazing imagery? 

Justin: Bad vision, mostly.

Crisia: Which is your main purpose as a digital artist?

Justin: To destroy everything that I can get my hands on.

 

Crisia: What are your future plans for your art?

Justin: Preserve it all in one of my cryogenic chambers for the next 7 or 8 years while i'm still hanging around. Then watch from up in heaven when my distant relatives clean out my chambers after the funeral and throw everything away.

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