Appropriation and the Archive: In the early 1960s, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol began to incorporate
photographic images into their paintings, establishing a new mode of visual production that relied not on the then - dominant tradition of gestural abstraction but rather on mechanical processes such as screenprinting.
From William Henry Fox Talbot's earliest «photogenic drawings» and Charles Nègre's translation of
photographic images into a variety of mechanical processes, to the photogram process that was a staple for Man Ray, Dada, and the Surrealists, Past Picture draws from the extraordinary holdings of late nineteenth and early twentieth - century photographs in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada to present prints and images by some of photography's most innovative and influential inventors and practitioners.
Lyons and Wilson appropriate US currency, spent gun shell casings and, in direct homage, various foods to create floor, wall, and ceiling porcelain tile installations, utilizing the modern process of sublimation (a combination of heat and pressure) to embed
photographic images into tile.
Appropriating pavement signs of former department stores on the streets of Havana, Garaicoa turns digital
photographic images into carpets that visitors can walk across.
These prints represent all manner of special processes and innovative techniques in printing — such as using linen and cotton pulp paint and photo - luminescent inks; black and white and colored lithography; creative integration of collage and cut paper; incorporation of
photographic images into digital prints; screen printing; and many others.
Not exact matches
«Morphing», a technique put to good effect in the film Terminator 2, uses software to transform one
photographic image seamlessly
into another — turning a car, for example,
into a horse.
Images of
photographic precision combine
into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated with fear, where it's hard to tell victim from perpetrator.
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Since the mid-1990s, Muniz has been incorporating everyday objects
into his
photographic process to create witty, bold, and often deceiving
images based on photojournalism and art history.
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Photographic images are often part of a fluid chain of thoughts and notes that cross over
into different areas.
Nevertheless, few people have seen as many photographs as he has, and few have delved
into the culture, experience and expression of the
photographic image with such meticulousness and insight as he has.
The
photographic image, it's digital reproduction, and the acrylic abstract painting sit as separate medium - specific layers, while also compressing
into a single composition.
Much of the meaning of Liu's painting comes from the way the washes and drips dissolve the documentary
images, suggesting the passage of memory
into history, while working to uncover the cultural and personal narratives fixed — but often concealed — in the
photographic instant.
The sixty - nine black - and - white
images in Untitled Film Stills construct and reiterate stereotypes of postwar femininity, and were Sherman's seminal foray
into her now - signature
photographic practice.
In an age where, because of technological advance, the veracity of the
photographic image has long been cast
into doubt and reality and history are easily manipulated to appear «real», Douglas employs a large format and an almost hallucinatory sharpness, the result of digital rendering, to question authorship, reality and the truth and meaning behind what we see — truth within the medium of photography and within the political and sociological issues that underpin the scenes his photographs portray.
Her most recent mixed media works for example start with black and white
photographic images of potatoes which De Jong transforms
into landscapes, animals or monsters, which have become so characteristic to her practice.
In Photographs — her first exclusively
photographic exhibition in New York — Hammond recontextualizes found
images into imagined scenarios that are unique, uncanny, and oddly familiar.
The exhibition and this accompanying catalogue are divided
into three parts: seven large paintings from the Wall of Light series; a set of 40 watercolors; and three
photographic series, which intriguingly illuminate Scully's
image - making process — Aran, Santo Domingo for Nene and Alhambra, the latter of which is published here for the first time.
, 1976 traces Acconci's early actions and performances, including FOLLOWING PIECE (1969), in which he followed passers - by on the street until they entered private spaces — SHADOW - PLAY (1970), in which he shadowboxed with a bright light shining behind him while moving in front of a wall — OPENINGS (1970), during which a camera focuses on Acconci's stomach as he pulls out his body hair, the film ends when Acconci is hairless — SEEDBED (1972), during which he audibly masturbated for eight hours a day under a temporary floor at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York while visitors walked overhead — THE RED TAPES (1976 - 77), a three - part epic that merges video space with filmic space, evolving
into complex amalgam of narrative strategies,
photographic images, music and spoken language.
With the «Landscape series», begun in 1989, Wachtel inserted these cartoon characters
into the readymade lexicon of mainstream magazine and newspaper
photographic images documenting the contemporary socio - political landscape of the time.
The former — an abstract collection of
images created by inputting a series of numbers corresponding to frequencies, amplitudes, and color values
into a custom - designed program — plays with the role technology plays in
photographic representation; the latter, staged scenes from a imaginary emergency situation of power loss in New York City, explores what happens to human emotions in such scenarios.
The paintings are faithful to their
photographic sources yet freely recreated, the artist's meticulous technique introducing an aura of individualized craftsmanship
into images that in most cases are as deeply familiar and as widely circulated as memes.
In two recent series, one of rounded - squares that look somewhat like television or computers screens and the other of black concentric circles that resemble targets, he turns painting
into an industrial project in the manner of photography by making multiple painted copies of a single one - off
photographic image.
Aptly titled «Why Pictures Now,» after a 1981 photograph by the artist, the exhibition features Lawler's
photographic investigations
into how pictures function: Charming
images of Jasper Johns paintings adorning the walls of collectors» homes, Richters being moved from one museum to another, or an in - museum shot of a Thomas Struth photograph of museum crowds surrounding ruins within a museum (you'll get it once you see it).
It's about the intervention
into the mass - produced
image and the
photographic image.
In her woven work she integrates many components in her process, capturing her unique
images multiple times through a repetitive sequence of traditional analog
photographic methods, then arranging the large format prints
into precise and deliberate pairings.
The same straightforwardness is found in his photography: un-staged, unedited
images are presented through the framework of the
photographic lens, turning a corner of a real life environment
into a surreal experience.
STRIPTEASES and PENN CENTER PIECES, featuring rare multiple -
image photographic works by Ray Metzker from the mid 1960's,
into the early 1990's, will celebrate Metzker's 25th one - person show at Laurence Miller Gallery.
Gerry Giliberti is a print - based
photographic artist who uses graphics, photography, sculpture and digital imagery to create abstract, surrealistic
images and constructions that bring the viewer
into a new visual world.
Miller is one of the foremost camera-less photographers working today whose practice applies a craft ethos to his experiments in the dark room, and his ongoing research
into the possibilities colour in
photographic image.
The artists sometimes translated their
photographic images directly
into their work in other media, and when viewed alongside these paintings, prints, and drawings, the snapshots reveal fascinating parallels in foreshortening, cropping, lighting, silhouettes, and vantage point.»
Berlin - based agency Vojd created the 2017 graphics, releasing a suite of
photographic images warped
into marbled, melting abstractions.
In both series, he overlaid
photographic document with the making - visible of imaginative or formal associations, and collapsed different moments of time
into a single
image.
The exhibition showcases ten local and international contemporary artists, many showing in Vancouver for the first time, whose works call
into question how
photographic images speak to us.
Featuring
photographic images of indigenous masks, beach scenes, and tropical foliage arranged
into complex geometric patterns alongside embedded tiles, the collages depict kaleidoscopic visions of imaginary landscapes.
By inserting himself
into the
photographic image and through his mark making, Rhode creates records and traces of «having been there.»
Taking a cue from the MoMA exhibitions Robert Heinecken: Object Matter and Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963 — 2010, this session addresses the ways in which expanded ideas about the
photographic medium and the circulation of
images resonate
into the 21st century.
Bearden created 21 small collages, which he subsequently converted
into large black - and - white
photographic images.
Ledare structured the production of Double Bind (2010/2012) by intervening
into an existing relationship triangle, positioning it as a complex rubric from which to produce two bodies of
photographic images.
Caughtinmoment forever remains in suspension, seemingly expanding sunrises and sunsets
into familiar
photographic depictions and immediately contracting them to cut - outs that highlight the pixel as a building block of the digital
image.
The noted photographer and installation artist, who often turns arrangements of
images into wild, immersive environments, will show selections from her extensive
photographic archive, which covers the two decades beginning in 1995.
Similarly, McAlpine's fidelity to «origin» is palpable in the way she retains the grainy aggregate of the paving surfaces through an exploration
into the fibrous qualities of the
photographic image.
In her paintings and
photographic prints, Jane Hammond organizes found
image fragments
into surreal juxtapositions, foraging flea markets, used bookstores, and antique shops for inspiration.
His art is figurative and often based on
photographic images, but the end effect is to take us
into a completely different world of often hallucinatory power.
Peter Bunnell's 1970 MoMA show Photography
Into Sculpture proved a landmark in
photographic practice, through its presentation of
images arranged in a sculptural manner.
Oppenheim's approach involves bypassing the camera and applying wood veneers straight onto
photographic paper to directly transfer their natural patterns, transporting material
into image with no intermediary.
To capture this view of the Grand Canal in Venice, she transformed a room
into a camera obscura by darkening all of the windows and leaving only a small opening that projected an
image of the exterior world onto the opposite wall, where she hung large sheets of
photographic paper.
At Higher Pictures Roysdon presents a salon - style hang of her
photographic projects made over the last decade, distilling her variform thinking and production
into an engagement with the specific visual language of photography — its sitedness, its relationship to abstraction, and the translation of physical actions (in the darkroom)
into a static
image.
Just a few weeks
into his residency, he has spent his time scanning
images on Light Work's high resolution scanner, editing photographs for his upcoming four exhibitions, working on his branding series, adapting his short film «Winter in America» on the murder of his cousin
into film stills, and preparing for an upcoming lecture at a regional conference with the Society for
Photographic Education.
Narrative: The exhibition also explores the narrative possibilities of photography found in the interplay of
image and text in the work of Robert Frank, Larry Sultan, and Jim Goldberg; the emotional drama of personal crisis in Nan Goldin's
image grids; or the expansion of
photographic description
into experimental video and film by Victor Burgin and Judy Fiskin.