The Red House Center for Culture and Debate
Department for Photography at the National Gallery for Foreign Art
Center for Analytical Photography Sofia, Bulgaria
Present:

"I live here…"

Photography by
Jennifer Gardner, Los Angeles, CA.

Her latest project titled "I live here, and often I wish I didn't" is a deeply personal account of an artist who is searching the remains of the past, by re-creating visual memories. The images represent the artist's attempt to reconcile conflicting emotions involving identity and place of origin. Here is what she says about the Mulholland Drive series from the show:

‘…I photographed this stretch of the road to record what has always been, what still is, and what I remember. In the process I discovered something odd yet appealing in a landscape which I previously considered quite plain. Despite the dynamics of the celebrated city below, the evolving terrain and the shifting hillsides, Mulholland Drive fundamentally remains the same. I suppose in much the same way, so do I. ’

Jennifer Gardner divides her time between practicing law and being a fine art photographer, between Los Angeles and Berlin. She founded GAM (Global Artists Management) for representing independent producers, directors, writers, actors, distributors, fine artists end designers. Jennifer Gardner combines her art and legal backgrounds to advise clients concerning a variety of aspects of the visual arts, entertainment, digital and media-related industries.

Ms. Gardner received her B.S. degree in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles and her J.D. degree from Southwestern University School of Law in the 1980's. During the 1990’s she studied photography with Shelby Lee Adams, Albert Watson, Keith Carter, Mary Ellen Mark, Michael O’Neill, Sean Kernan, and Andrea Modica, among others. Jennifer Gardner’s photographs have been exhibited in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, in Japan and Mexico

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