Some of the most captivating works use
photography as a point of departure: Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê mounts color prints onto strips of linen that he then weaves into contrasting images of war and domesticity.
The noted portrait photographer employs
photography as a point of departure for a series of new paintings that show the ways in which photography (and its translation into other media) can leave a lot of questions hovering about what represents reality.
Not exact matches
The major group exhibition Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits takes
as its
departure point the art
of forgotten Victorian - era Spiritualist Georgiana Houghton (1814 - 1884), and features contemporary and historical painting, sculpture, video and
photography that both explore and adopt Spiritualist practices and methodologies.
Her wall installations, comics,
photography, and mixed media works on paper often take historical and mythic texts
as inspiration and
points of departure.
Taking this shift and the artist's penchant for experimentation across media
as a
point of departure, Winslow Homer and the Camera questions how new visual technology impacted the artist's production and engagement with subjects, and unveils how
photography became increasingly a part
of Homer's visual investigation and broader creative practice.
The final exhibition for Sharon Lockhart's season at The Artist's Institute takes darkness
as a
point of departure, bringing together a night painting from Katz's personal collection with the pioneering flash
photography of Harold Edgerton, two artists whose works have been touchstones for Sharon's latest series
of photographs.
The final exhibition for Sharon Lockhart's season at The Artist's Institute takes darkness
as a
point of departure, bringing together a night painting from Alex Katz's personal collection with the pioneering flash
photography of Harold Edgerton, two artists whose works have been touchstones for Sharon's latest series
of photographs, When You're Free, You Run in the Dark.
Taking these selected works
as his
point of departure, the artist explores the relationship not only between painting and
photography, but also that between image and language.