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Between – Ceaphas Stubbs

April- May 2014

…Between… establishes situations that create discomforting dualities in which one is split between seeing and not seeing through the depiction of projected images onto abandoned interiors. I developed this series during my trip to Istanbul, Turkey. The projections were shot at night (sometimes in total darkness with the help of my flashlight), and as soon as an image is projected it’s as if the space is being awakened: I let the architecture, angles, textures, lines, and scale inspire me. I see potential in things that are overlooked: For me, these interiors are scarred with history and random markings that bear testimony to latent and ghostly energies. Although initially I wanted to use the projector as physical material to explore notions of conflated Eastern/Western gaze and collapse time. Instead the images became psychic spaces in which traces of the history unconsciously melt onto the fragile skeletons of the physical architecture.

Artist Biography Ceaphas Stubbs graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in Visual Arts in 2011 and went on to earn an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013.  In 2012 he completed a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.  He was the recipient of a Christopher Lyon Memorial Award in 2013, and nominated for the Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in the spring of 2012.  In 2013, Stubbs gave artist talks at the SALT Institute in Beyoğlu District, Istanbul, Turkey; and at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.  His work, “…And Everything Will be Created Here…” (2012), is in the Lyon Family private collection. Stubbs has worked as a staff photographer for The Daily Pennsylvanian, and as a freelance corporate and fashion photographer since 2011. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Brookdale College where he instructs Photoshop and After Effects courses.  Stubbs is also currently represented by both the Reginald Ingraham Gallery in Culver City, CA, and the Loft 594 Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.