Photography and Collage Works by Tim Gaudreau

Sponsored by the Expressive Arts Therapy Program and CIIS Café

November 9 – December 14
CIIS Minna Street Center, Second Floor

Reception and Talk
Friday, November 9, 7–9pm
CIIS Minna Street Center, Second Floor

Tim Gaudreau is a native New Hampshire artist who is passionate about the natural world and the preservation of the environment. In Self Portrait as Revealed by Trash, Gaudreau collaged 5,000 images generated over a yearlong daily documentation of his trash. By confronting his contribution to the waste stream, Gaudreau exposes his own habits to public scrutiny as a way to encourage dialogue about consumer culture, packaging, and recycling. The recipient of several cultural exchange grants, Gaudreau has traveled to Brazil and India and exhibited his work nationally and internationally. His photographic essay An African Portrait Revisited, exploring Ghana on the eve of its 50th-anniversary celebration of independence, was published this year. His work combines photography with video, new media, graphics, and sculpture to create public art advocating awareness of eco-issues. Using humor and irony as artistic tools, Gaudreau seeks to provoke public consciousness as an entryway to questioning our relationship to nature. Through fellowship awards from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony, Gaudreau has been able to produce public works that challenge conventional thinking. To view other works or to read Gaudreau’s essays on the environment, visit www.wake-up.ws.

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