Stuart Whipps presents an installation of three new works that bring together disparate strands of his ongoing research into the history of monuments, and the relationship
between photographic processes and physical materials.
Also the fundamental elements of traditional photography, the works included in the exhibition foreground the inherent relationship
between the photographic process and the natural world.
Not exact matches
The whole
process was thus based on
photographic images, while the issue at stake was the difference
between a painting (an artwork) and a press photo.
The connection
between photography and jewelry extends back more than 150 years to the invention of the
photographic process.
Using a variety of media and a series of
photographic processes, Ngyuen creates fantastical, large - scale installations, engulfing the viewer into an otherworldly vortex that fluctuates
between representation and abstraction.
This exhibition focuses on the years
between 1979 — 89, a period in which Whitten was influenced by scientific and technological change; works such as his DNA series reveal his interest in
photographic processes and electronic imaging.
Her exploration of the act of looking and the mechanics of the
photographic process has resulted in a highly conceptual yet strangely visceral body of work that considers the thresholds
between the personal and the universal.
Published on the occasion of her 2013 exhibition at Aspen Art Museum, Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper highlights four recent bodies of work on paper that explore the complex relationship
between the
photographic archive and
processes of self - fashioning, including a new group of works being developed during her time as the AAM's 2013 Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence.
During those years he created his first works with pencil on canvas and ink on
photographic prints; in them, he mixed words and diagrams to explore the relationship
between the body and its environment, and the
processes by which man perceives and imagines.
Josephson's conceptual approach to photography has persisted throughout his career, and he continues to explore the relationships
between authorship,
photographic processes, and the production of meaning.
His highly crafted photographs, in which his subjects are often revealed in fragments, alert us to the artifice and performance that are an integral part of the
photographic process; a constant negotiation
between the artist, the sitter, the viewer, and the work itself.
While it interests me that working this way speaks directly to technical and historical
photographic processes, I'm most excited by the accidents of the resulting images: the movement in
between my three frames, and the mis - registered overlapping... Outside of the reasons this
process was originally developed, mainly a solution to reproduce the world's color, I'm looking for: unseeable squirming, shifting, and growth, arms flailing in ecstasy, or light slowly moving across our walls.
Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper highlights a recent body of work that explores the complex relationship
between the
photographic archive and
processes of self - fashioning.
Over the ensuing decades he continued a systematic and rigorous exploration of the
processes of painting, generating an abundant output that can range from
photographic realism to the most uncompromising abstraction and take the form of the subtlest exercises in monochrome or the most intense colour, with every variation in
between.