Fleisher: Challenge Artists: Gretchen Hupfel

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1995-1996 Artists

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Gretchen Hupfel

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Gretchen Hupfel

	Somebody's Husband, 1997, digital photograph, 30"x40"

As a physical layer that mediates the viewer's perception, the rectangles that were once literally data (computer key-punch cards, the technological birch bark of another generation) have become a metaphor for data. The suggestion of rain or light is purely an accident, but a relevant one. Through these opposing metaphors, we alternately have a choice of interpreting the technological overlay as deluge or enlightenment.

EDUCATION
MFA, University Of Delaware, Newark, DE, 1993; BA, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1986

AWARDS
NEA, MId America Arts Alliance Fellowship, 1996; NEA, Delaware State Council Fellowship, 1994

EXHIBITIONS
Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO, New Photography, 1997; Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Stop To Consider, 1996; Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, In and Out of the Box, 1996; Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA, Challenge Exhibition, 1996; Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, New Digital Work, 1995

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Established in 1978, the Challenge Exhibition Series is a regional juried competition that is committed to enriching and expanding people's lives through art. Several three-person shows, held each year from September through May, feature the work of regional artists chosen annually from over three hundred entries.