Born: 1964, Norwood, Massachusetts
Lives and Works: Los Angeles

Blending rigorous aesthetic concerns with an anthropologist's sensibility to community engagement and observation, Sharon Lockhart uses film and photography to create poignant, beautiful, and intimate portraits. She carefully manipulates formal elements as she explores certain concepts with regularity: portraiture, the relationship between photography and film, and the combination of fictive or choreographed performances with unscripted, intimate moments. The film Pine Flat and the accompanying color photographs Pine Flat Portrait Studio (both from 2005) present a spare, meditative series of filmic and photographic portraits of a group of children the artist came to know during her nearly four-year stay in Pine Flat, California. Pine Flat is a two-part film focusing on children and adolescents interacting in the sublime landscape surrounding this small rural community. Its determinedly languid pace engages the viewer in a self-conscious reflection on the process of looking and offers a meditation on the subjective experience of time, particularly as an aspect of children's lives.

Film Screenings of Pine Flat daily at 2:00 p.m. and Thursday evenings at 5:00 p.m., Carnegie Museum of Art Theater. Pine Flat will screen on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 3:10 p.m. and Thursday at 5:00 p.m. during the week of 7.21.08 - 7.26.08. Schedule subject to change.

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