The Parthenon and Centennial Park Conservancy are honored to present Lynn Goldsmith: The Looking Glass, a groundbreaking photography exhibit in which photographer Lynn Goldsmith highlights the psychological relationship between what we see and what we imagine through a series of self-portraits. The exhibit will be on view in the Parthenon’s East Gallery from Thursday, June 24 through Wednesday, October 13.
Recently relocated to Nashville, Lynn Goldsmith’s editorial imagery has appeared in and on the covers of Life, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and National Geographic. With subjects ranging from entertainers to athletes to world leaders, she’s photographed the extraordinary individuals of America’s last five decades. Her fine art photography is also included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian, Moma and The Kodak Collection. With a career track-record as a network television director, a recording artist on Island Records, a photographer, and a painter, it is clear Goldsmith’s talents are limitless. The purpose of The Looking Glass series is to experience that anything is possible; that the only limits we have are the limits we put on ourselves.
According to Goldsmith, the making of The Looking Glass was an investigation into identity, which started with focusing on “who am I?” “I want making art to be a process for enlightenment that empowers me as well as others. This work shows how changing what we wear and how we look to ourselves and to others can open up to new worlds of possibilities. The opportunity to make my passion of a quest into the nature of identity and the human spirit one I can share with others in a building like Nashville’s Parthenon suits the context of the work perfectly.”
The Looking Glass portraits are dreamlike, colorful, mysterious, and occasionally irreverent - a reflection of Goldsmith’s creativity, introspection, and humor. Specific to her work are references to myths, fairy tales, film, and literature, which point out how these traditional forms have shaped our collective psyches and contributed to the social and political perceptions of women. She invites you to question how and what we see, to consider how our perception is both culturally conditioned and yet always in flux, somehow both predictable and subject to chance.
To learn more about purchasing The Looking Glass limited edition book, visit thelookingglassbook.com.
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