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Shellburne Thurber
Andover, Ma: Office with Chartreuse Analyst's Chair, 2000
Chromogenic print
Courtesy of the artist

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Shellburne Thurber's work was presented in Playing off Time: Contemporary Photographers in Dialogue with the Past at The Aldrich in 1999-2000.

Emerging as part of the Boston School, a mid-seventies group including Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, and Jack Pierson, who evolved the documentary tradition of the camera by focusing the camera at themselves and their immediate circle, Thurber's interiors continue to address the possibilities of the photographic portrait as she examines the psychological qualities of space.

Thurber was born in Boston in 1949 and currently lives and works in Cambridge, MA. She earned her BFA from Tufts University and her MFA from the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University.  Her solo exhibitions include Abandoned Interiors/Analytic Interiors, Bloomberg Space, London; Psychoanalytic Interiors, Participant Inc., New York; Renovation, Boston Athenaeum; and Home, ICA Boston. Her recent group exhibitions include Family Ties, The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA;and Interior, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.