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Artwork by Justin Banger on Display
We will be displaying the artwork of former Children's Department employee Justin Banger in our galleries throughout the months of November and December. Please stop by and have a look!
Photos of Justin's art in the gallery neart the Library Theatre
Justin Banger works in various mediums as an artist. He is drawn to printmaking in particular because the work exists as ‘multiple originals.’ It revitalizes the notion of reproducibility in a world where cheap reproduction is evading. After crafting his images on copper plates, wood or other matrices, they are printed through a printing press a certain number of times to make a numbered edition. He uses centuries old intaglio and relief printmaking techniques of the likes of Rembrandt, Durer and Goya, but in doing so he symbolically and ambiguously explores the ecological, religious and mythic tensions that could only arise in our 21st century.
EXHIBITIONS
2005 Prints with a Purpose, Montgomery Museum of Art
2008 America’s 2000 Works on Paper, Northwest Arts Center, Minot, ND. Merit Award
2008 Fiction, Lies, and Evasion, Projekt30.com online exhibition
2008 Things Can Be Guns & Other Things Too, Bloch Gallery, University of Montevallo
2009 Lessedra World Print Annual, Sophia, Bulgaria
2009 Things Can Be Guns and Other Things Too, Gadsden State Community College, Gadsden, AL 2009 Birmingham Artwalk, Birmingham, AL
2010 Sixty Square Inches, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 2010 Alias, Lite Box Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2010 Lessedra World Print Annual, Sophia, Bulgaria
2010 ArtHouse Print Exchange Show, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Birmingham Artwalk, Birmingham, AL
2011 “First Impression” An Introduction to Alabama Printmaking, Lite Box Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2011 33rd Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, Peoria, IL 2011 Birmingham Artwalk, Birmingham, AL
2011 Bluff Park Art Show, Hoover, AL
COLLECTIONS
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chapter illustrations, The Hopeful Skeptic: Revisiting Christianity from the Outside by Nick Fiedler, IVP Press. 2009.
“The Cable of Meaning,” Illustration for The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle, Baker Books. 2008.
“Moss Rock Preserve Drawing,” Birmingham Hoover Sketchbook, Indigo Publishers. 2007.
