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Rash of Home Invasions Plagues One of Florida's Most 'Livable Cities'

Dunedin Fine Art Center announces 'Private Spaces - The Dunedin Project,' a documentation of the values of a culture

DUNEDIN, Fla., Dec. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the course of summer and early fall 2007, fifty-plus households in Dunedin, Florida were subjects of the most intimate but gentle type of invasion. The darkest closets were probed and lingerie drawers recorded as award-winning photographer Les Slesnick made his way from home to home as he worked to create Private Spaces - The Dunedin Project. On Friday, January 11th, the Dunedin Fine Art Center joins the community in celebrating the artistic culmination of these efforts while giving thanks to each participant who made The Dunedin Project possible.

This exhibition is a continuation of the artist's Private Spaces body of work whose goal is to document the values of a culture. In the artist's words, "People tend to display in their homes what they value most in life, whether it's a gun collection or family photos and mementos. An enormous amount of information about the people occupying these spaces can be gleaned by studying its contents, and seemingly unimportant details the inhabitants of the spaces have come to ignore all become critically important elements of my work. The result is often what has been called a 'peopleless portrait' -- much is learned about an individual without actually seeing him. It's as if the person occupying the space just left the room, but left everything about himself behind, expecting to return momentarily."

Though known primarily for his Mexican and Cuban portrait/interiors, in 2006, Slesnick resumed work on the Private Spaces series, chronicling the lives and homes of small-town America. The Dunedin Project is the fourth town in his U.S.-based series and the first Floridian town to be documented. Following its premier at the Dunedin Fine Art Center, The Dunedin Project will become a traveling exhibition.

Also at the Dunedin Fine Art Center:

James Perry Walker: The Preacher and His Congregation

For six years from 1976 until Reverend Cole's death in 1981, James Perry Walker documented the preacher's Black Baptist circuit, his congregations and the roads he traveled. In the beautiful photographs that comprise this exhibition (on loan from the Flint Institute of Art), he was capturing change in these rural communities, while recording the tail end of an oral tradition both deeply African and American.

Elizabeth Faubert's American Sign Language Series

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a picture of one word worth?

Photo-Synthesis: DFAC Photographers

Works by the Dunedin Fine Art Center's faculty and students, featuring digital, traditional and alternative photographic processes.

All exhibitions run from January 11th to February 17th, 2008.

Dunedin Fine Art Center is located at 1143 Michigan Blvd. in "delightfully different Dunedin." Gallery and Gift Shop hours are: 10 am - 5 pm M-F, 10 am - 2 pm Sat., and 1 - 4 pm Sun. The Palm Cafe is open 8 am - 3 pm M-F and 10 am - 2 pm Saturday. For more information call 727.298.DFAC or visit our website at http://www.dfac.org/.

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Source: Dunedin Fine Art Center

CONTACT: Kaya Parwanicka, Dunedin Fine Art Center, +1-727-298-DFAC, x236

Web site: http://www.dfac.org/

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