The phrase
"cyanotype process" refers to a photographic technique that uses a chemical solution to create blue-toned pictures.
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Beshty and Christian Marclay have both used the
old cyanotype process, Marclay in prints of unspooled cassette tapes (another obsolete technology) and Beshty in a recent installation that archived objects from his studio as cyanotypes on chemically treated scraps of paper and card.
Throughout her career, she has explored a variety of light - sensitive materials from the
earliest cyanotype process to the latest technology in digital color photography.
On view is a recent body of work in which Lambrecht explores the evolution of perception using
the cyanotype process, an early photographic technique dating to the mid-19th century and named for its Prussian blue hue.
When rendered in the deep blue hues characteristic of
the cyanotype process, the surfaces of the river and the street become almost the same.
I want to explore how the color blue, as well as the historical connotations of
the cyanotype process, play a role in transforming how the images» content is perceived.
Adding to the admixture are the more mysterious objects obscured during
the cyanotype process that resist the process of naming (and thus significance)-- a reminder of art's resistance to quantitative procedures of data collation and progressive outcomes.
Artist Ryan McGinness began using
the cyanotype process in 2010 as part of a commission for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Shaw's pieces play with
the cyanotype process to create images that evoke architectural blueprints, while McGhee's pieces collage images and textures from urban environments.
This exhibit continues the artist's photographic experiments with
the cyanotype process.