MFA Thesis Show "Varients"
Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Ave, Boston
May 4–12, 2013
Reception: May 4, 6–9 pm

"Variants" is an exploration into the representation of the mentally ill in photography, both past and present. Using the tropes of typological photography and stock photography used in psychiatric drug advertisements, this ongoing portrait project is a collaboration with friends, family and strangers that examines classification and identity, and the representation of illness in today's media.

Jodie Mim Goodnough is an artist based in Boston and Los Angeles. She attended the photojournalism program at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine and will receive her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in May 2013. Her work uses photography, video, performance and sculpture to look at the various coping strategies we employ to find comfort in an often uncomfortable world, from religious rituals to pharmaceuticals and everything in between. She has been published and shown in galleries across the country.

www.jodiemim.com

Image: Jodie Mim Goodnough, Megan, 2012. Archival digital print and video.