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Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow

Nate Larson

Tephra ICA

September 28, 2019 – January 4, 2020

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Introduction

Tephra ICA presents the next chapter of Baltimore-based artist Nate Larson’s Centroid Towns project. Since the first US census in 1790, the United States Census Bureau has been recording the mean center of population as it moves steadily west and south. The first Centroid Town recorded was Chestertown, Maryland, and the projected Centroid of the 2020 census is Hartville, Missouri. Larson has done preliminary research in all 25 towns and completed five chapters of the project with communities in Ellicott City, Maryland; Bloomington, Indiana; Mascoutah, Illinois; and De Soto, Missouri. For this exhibition at Tephra ICA, Larson dives deeper into the community of Waterford, Virginia, Centroid Town of 1810.

Installation Views

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Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow

Biography

Nate Larson works with photographic media, artist books, and digital video. His projects have been widely shown across the US and internationally as well as featured in numerous publications and media outlets, including Wired, The Guardian, NPR, Hyperallergic, New York Times, The Washington Post, and Art Papers. His artwork is included in the permanent collections of the High Museum Atlanta, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Orlando Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago. Larson is currently serving as Chair of the Photography Department at MICA / Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

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This exhibition is generously supported by Virginia McGehee Friend. Additional support provided by the Exhibition Circle.

Selected Works

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Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
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Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
Centroid Towns: Like a Passing Shadow
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