MEGHAN BOODY
14 SEPTEMBER - 21 OCTOBER



Psyche Sees
Lightjet print
56.5 x 41.5 inches framed




Psyche Smokes
Lightjet print
56.5 x 41.5 inches framed




Psyche Sleeps
Lightjet print
56.5 x 41.5 inches framed




Psyche's Tail
Lightjet print
56.5 x 41.5 inches framed




Psyche Eats
Lightjet print
56.5 x 41.5 inches framed




Psyche Adorned
Lightjet print
56.5 x 41.5 inches framed




Psyche Returns
Lightjet print
56.5 x 41.5 inches framed




Psyche's Super Nova
Lightjet print
56.5 x 41.5 inches framed










Sandra Gering Gallery is pleased to present new digital photography by Meghan Boody from 14 September through 21 October 2000. Included in the exhibition will be thirteen works from Psyche and Smut, a series that tells a tale of a young girl, Psyche, and the trials of her psychic metamorphosis.

Psyche appears at the beginning of the series as a conventional little girl, primly pinafored and well behaved. Slipping through a tear in the bourgeois fabric, the young maid exits the confines of the Upper East Side and emerges in a subterranean world. There she discovers, among other things, her deviant twin sister, Smut. Confronted with this alternate existence, Psyche is rocked out of the complacency of girlhood.

The works in the exhibition pick up the narrative at the moment Psyche breaks away from reality and discovers herself in unfamiliar, cavernous depths. The underground world Boody creates is one ruled by frogs and their concubines, one where little girls grow tails and reptilian skin. Psyche undergoes various trials and transformations as she struggles to define herself in relation to this new world and to Smut, her newly found doppelganger. Alternately attracted and repulsed by each other, Psyche and Smut are classic agents of duality. Their fantastical reconciliation in the final image represents Psyche's resurrection and the supreme amount of energy contained within their bond.

Boody's images are filled with details that reveal a story more complex than a linear account of psychic maturation. Each image has a main panel, and several sections below that contain related vignettes. Here the story branches off to follow alternate characters and plot lines. As in Boody's previous series of digital works, the photos are lush with symbolic imagery and the possible interpretations are endless.

Psyche and Smut will travel to Tel Aviv, Israel and to Milan, Italy. This is Meghan Boody's third solo exhibition at Sandra Gering Gallery.