Career
Blackmon"s photographs are inspired by her experience of growing up in a large family, her current role as both mother and photographer, and the timelessness of family dynamics. Blackmon aims to re-contextualize classical art-historical motifs by melding them with the personal experience of her own frenzied upbringing. Influenced by the masters of the Dutch Renaissance, most specifically the work of January Steen, Blackmon infuses her work with a distinctively Dutch sense of light, palette and use of iconography.
Also influenced by the Modernist painter Balthus, Blackmon crafts busy scenes in which time stands still - leaving the viewer to anticipate what might happen in the next moment.
The coupling of these two influences produces tension between subjects in an otherwise typical domestic setting in which playful behavior is infused with an ever present sense of impending disaster. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and can be found in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, Rochester, New New York
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. And the Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington.
