Degrades, (1986 - 2006) glowing
color photograms, are among the many works in this exhibition made without a camera by exposing the chromogenic paper to color filters and enlarger.
In 1986 Welling began a series of
color photograms made with shadows, titled «Degradés.»
Color photograms of unfolded peace cranes are tiled to form a vaguely silo - shaped space that engulfs the supporting structure above; the viewer enters through a small opening.
This volume includes, amongst other series, selections from «Diary / Landscape,» in which Welling matched the writing of his ancestors» letters with Connecticut winter landscapes; «Glass House» a meditation on Philip Johnson's 1949 residence, shot using colored filters; examples from his «Degrades,» pure
color photograms created in the darkroom as well as selections from his recent «Wyeth» and «Choreograph» track his early interest in painting and dance.
How and why did you start working with
color photograms?
As if to separate out one last component from Hesidence, the glow, F+D (for Françoise and Daniel) Cartier use the back room for
color photograms.
Lisa Oppenheim and Ana Cardoso, Untitled, 2011 Unique
color photogram 14 x 11 inches July 2 — September 4, 2011 We are pleased to announce YIN YANG MUSIC, our sixth summer NOS exhibition and residency program curated by artist Amy Granat.
LV: In your second «umbrella concept» Struck by light, you present a collection of works made with
the color photogram technique.
Not exact matches
Her work is easy to consider in art historical terms as we see direct parallels between the amorphous monochromes of the more atmospheric
photograms and Helen Frankenthaler's
color field paintings.
In this series, «body prints» or
photograms of life size figures, often children, are combined with elements from nature to create both
color and monochromatic works.
Liz Nielsen's work joins and adds to the historical tradition of the
photogram — one of the medium's earliest processes - but one which has enjoyed a renaissance in the worlds of contemporary art and
color photography.
It consists of artworks in a range of media, including a seven - minute video,
color photographs, black - and - white
photograms, and aluminum and Plexiglas sculptures.
A list of some of the processes, materials, and cameras used in A Fine Experiment reads like a grand catalogue of photography's means: offset lithograph, dye transfer print, Polaroid print, gelatin silver print, Cibachrome print,
color - in -
color print,
photogram, photo collage, double exposure, cliché verre, contact print, large format, panoramic, 35 mm camera.
In the
photograms, white curves cross large, vertical fields of uniform
color.
The exhibition included over 100 pieces made from 1986 until 2013, embracing a wide range of works, from his earliest series to
Photograms, cliché - verres, to the new, digitally manipulated
color photographs.
Welling's work ranges from Polaroid materials,
photograms, abstract images, architectural photographs, video, chemigrams and multichannel, digital
color inkjet prints.
The colourful photographs of abstracted forms and planes are reminiscent of Los Angeles - based artist Walead Beshty's
Color Curl and Black Curl series of
photograms, in which he exposes photographic paper to different coloured lights.
More recently, Boelens has made a series of large - scale
photograms, using various objects or textiles that are folded repeatedly over the duration of the exposure and create radiant fields of
color.
Made in an analogue
color darkroom, and build up from multiple exposures on light sensitive paper, the prints combine projected Photoshop files of digitized brush strokes with traditional
photogram techniques where objects are placed directly on the image surface.
Movement infuses Najdowski's own artistic practice, from her Spectra
photogram experiments with
color and light to her photographs of rural Brazilian storefronts to her roaming investigations into South American shamanism.
A series called Flowers (2004 - 11) also was made without a camera, as
photograms with
colored filters that are arranged in way that makes the prints look like watercolors with light radiating through their leaves and blossoms.