Rebecca Skinner & David DeMelim
Fragments in Time
Featuring
Rebecca Skinner and David DeMelim
About Rebecca Skinner
Rebecca Skinner photographs abandoned spaces throughout the United States. She is a modern-day urban explorer seeking unique neglected structures and desolate places. Skinner’s subject matter includes images of large open spaces and details such as peeling paint and rust. Texture, color and light play an important part in her image making and is attracted to the beauty of these places as well as the forgotten history.
Time is of the essence as some locations have since been demolished or restored, while others remain frozen in time. Danger is often present, whether it be from rotten floors, hazardous materials, or unexpected inhabitants. She never goes into these places alone and is strongly invested in leaving no trace. Working with tripod and natural light, Skinner does not stage her photographs — there is already a story to be told without making any adjustments.
Skinner is a core artist member at the Fountain Street Gallery in Boston, MA, and a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Her studio is located in Natick, MA.
About David DeMelim
There are no Kodak moments in David DeMelim’s work, but rather a syncopated succession of moments that combine to recall and define an event. His photography shares many of the concepts explored in Cubism—presenting multiple points of view and multiple moments in time compressed into a single image. Working in a “built-panorama” format, he seeks to record the human experience, not by capturing the "decisive moment" but by capturing the world as it is experienced, a continuous stream of images. His photographs are, in effect, single-frame movies.
DeMelim studied photography with Bart Parker at the University of Rhode Island. He is an active artist member of Providence Art Club, Art League of Rhode Island and 19 on Paper. His work has been exhibited at Newport Art Museum, Fitchburg Art Museum and Bristol Art Museum, and is housed in the collections of Lifespan and Fidelity. A career as a prepress manager afforded DeMelim the opportunity to play an active role in the digital revolution sweeping the print and photographic industries. DeMelim is Managing Director of Rhode Island Center of Photographic Arts, a member-supported photographic resource center and gallery space.
Fragments of Time
Currently being Featured in Fragments of Time at the Fountain Street Gallery in Boston, Ma. This exhibition features the work of photographers Rebecca Skinner and David DeMelim. The artists share a fascination with the passage of time in relation to the human experience, and, in this exhibition, they explore various approaches to the camera as a time machine. Skinner trains her lens on the industrial and domestic detritus abandoned in place after the inhabitants have moved on. DeMelim, by contrast, combines images representing multiple moments in time to evoke the feeling of having been present, of having shared an experience.
Fragments of Time is running from December 30th, 2020 - January 31st, 2021.
Located at
Fountain Street Gallery
460C Harrison Ave, Suite 2
Boston, MA 02118
Open from Saturday to Sunday from 12P.M. to 4P.M.
Rebecca Skinner Works
