Date: Sunday, October 20
Address: Josh Crow Studio, 1627 Washington Ave, Unit 203, St. Louis, MO 63103
Media: Photography
Studio Features: Restroom, Refreshments, Work For Sale
Alison Erazmus, The Gardener, 2018. Archival inkjet print. Courtesy of artist. 
Alison Erazmus, There's Something About Her, 2018. Archival inkjet print. Courtesy of artist. 
Alison Erazmus, Good Country People, 2014. Archival inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist. 
Alison Erazmus, The Old Man Rose Like Some Ancient Water Monster, 2017. Archival inkjet print. Courtesy of artist. 
Alison Erazmus, Holding Green, 2018. Archival Inkjet Print. Courtesy of artist. I am a narrative photographer at heart. Much of my work embodies the tenets of staged photography, where objects and figures are arranged to create a fictionalized tableau. Through these staged compositions, I aim to tell a story with each photograph. Psychoanalytic theory grounds my work across several projects. In my practice, I excavate and illuminate the narratives of dreams, memories, forgotten family history, colonialism, and violence through feminist and Freudian lenses. Fittingly, the photographic process echoes psychoanalysis, a practice that reveals suppressed thoughts and neurosis. Photography is an an act of illumination, a process that documents, proves, and fixes the unseen, the intangible, and the fleeting. Inspired by Surrealist art and paintings from the Romantic period, I often photograph in a large format and digitally edit, collage, and combine disparate imagery to create the resulting narrative photograph.
