"Gas Station Bathrooms I Slept In"
by Georgi Coquereau-Kimi
"Gas Station Bathrooms I Slept In" is a Non-fiction/Photography book, the images focus on the fabrication of social and environmental conditioning in which the photos are initiated from, influenced by solo travels during youth starting age eight, having visited and slept in many gas station bathrooms up and down the west coast, from Hollywood, to Tempe, AZ, hence the title. Selected photography work dates 1985 to present.
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About the Author
Georgi Coquereau is a Los Angeles-based photographer focused on viewer's perceptions/responses to metaphysical/psychological environments. Her work has been exhibited world-wide, and has been collected by the Toronto Ont., Canadian director of Artists Against Racism PSA purposes, the late Fritz Scholder, western painter, New Mexico, U.S., and she has appeared in many articles in Los Angeles Times, Medford Tribune, Oregon, The Journal, WA state, guest speaker locations, including KSOR radio station, Ashland, Oregon and numerous public schools. She taught photography and drawing courses at Southern Oregon State University, Pacific North West College of Art & Design, Oregon and Skagit Valley College, WA. She was invited to the White House to present her visual cultural education idea to the Clinton Cabinet, it was accepted in 2000, and implemented cultural education statements on bus shelters, two of which are permanent installations in Seattle area. She was director and curator of Open Eye Photo and Illustrations Gallery, Washington from 1994-2006. The gallery offered rotating exhibitions and performing arts. She organized and taught illustration and photography workshops there, including public art workshops with at-risk youth. Recent works as a visiting artist include A.I.R Vallauris Gallery, Vallauris, France and Meguro Museum of Tokyo, Japan. There the artist fabricated inter-active environmental installations where a viewer's shadow silhouette integrated with the imagery projected onto walls when one walked into the gallery space, 2014.