Gaiter works with computers and interactive multi-media to create photographs that capture societal and cultural events paired with personal imagery. Her exhibition, We Are All Poets, Cuba, 2007, is a series of photomontages Gaiter made after a trip to Cuba in June 2007 through Global Exchange, which organizes legal educational delegations to Cuba from the United States.
“I always take photos of graffiti, wherever I go,” Gaiter said. “I photographed scenes that seemed to embody the experience of being there--the light, the landscape, the decay, the people.” Gaiter said the digital photographs were montaged in Photoshop, sometimes with archival images. She made the digital prints herself.
“I am honored to be chosen by the SPACES Gallery,” Gaiter said. “I participated in an artist's panel during one exhibition there and found it to be an artistically and intellectually challenging--also connected to the local community--venue for contemporary art.”
Gaiter has a bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design from Carnegie Mellon University and a master's degree from Hamline University. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) and in many galleries, museums and public institutions in the United States. Gaiter's work was featured in Afrofuturism in 2006 at SPACES.
To view We Are All Poets, Cuba, 2007, go to [www.digidiva.net/poets].
Article by Maura Brady, AS '08
