Casey McGuire & Mark Schoon

Lunar Lake, 2019

Silver Gelatin Print

15.5 x 15.5 inches

Courtesy of the artist

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The Great Moon Hoax: Science and the Recreation of the Artificial merges science and art by exploring the complicated relationships between observation, representation, and understanding. This collaboration springs out of McGuire and Schoon's individual research that address different aspects of the real, artificial, and unattainable. The Great Moon Hoax has been included in 13th Annual National Alternative Processes Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY; New South IV, Kai Lin Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Gregory Harris Selects, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA; Context, Filter Photo Space, Chicago, IL. Mark Schoon is a Professor of Photography at the University of West Georgia. He holds a BA in television production from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and an MFA in Photography from Ohio University. His photographs are included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, CA, Casey McGuire is an Professor of Foundations and Sculpture at the University of West Georgia. McGuire received her BFA from Alfred University and her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Colorado, Boulder. McGuire is a resident in the studio artist program at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center.