In many of the artist's new works, a doubling of object and image occurs when Maisel collages the documented materials to
the surface of the photographic print.
The surface of the photographic print is explored in a new exhibition at Dye House, which focuses on the fluid nature in which it moves between two and three dimensions.
The artist engraves clipped poems reminiscent of haiku onto
the surface of these photographic prints, as if visualizing a voiceover commentary.
Not exact matches
A slippery formula loosens the markings on the
surface of each initial
print and mediates the transfer
of the
photographic image onto a blank panel.
Here it comes in the form
of a pale, 1960s Wallace Berman image
of the moon's remote
surface overlaid with cryptic writing; a black - and - white Vija Celmins screen -
print of the vast, horizonless ocean that appears to carry a faint «X,» as if the
printing plate had been canceled; a ragged piece
of fiberglass painted with a Tiepelo - like sky by Joe Goode, who seems to have ripped it from either the actual heavens above or a movie - studio set; and a
photographic close - up
of shifting desert sand, over which actual sand and colored pigment has been applied by David Benjamin Sherry, as if reality were a veil obscuring camera - created truth in our mediated universe.
The
surface of the photograph itself is a persistent subject
of interest for Tillmans, and his careful combination
of small and large formats, and framed and unframed
prints, serves to underscore the notion
of the
photographic image as an object — subjective and idiosyncratic.
The chalk dust covering the façade and grounds
of a West Virginia limestone - grinding factory alludes to the
photographic surface, as chalk is used in the
printing process to absorb ink.
Leaning against the far wall are a series
of canvases screen
printed in cyan, magenta, yellow and a range
of grays to black, each with the same flattened
photographic image
of lichen on the
surface of a rock.
Working with the seemingly narrow subject
of his own face, Close has produced a richly varied trove that ranges from intimately scaled collage maquettes and fingerprint drawings to monumental gridded canvases; from the sharp definition
of certain
photographic techniques to the ghostly blurs
of daguerreotypes and holograms; from the tactile complexity
of paper pulp editions to the smooth, mechanical
surfaces of Polaroids and digital ink - jet
prints; from the subtle tonalities
of gray - scale paintings and drawings to the exuberance
of an 111 - color screenprint.
McAlpine has cut, collaged and layered these sections
of film to create abstract compositions and has used these to produce
photographic prints which amplify the traces
of the human hand in the
surface texture
of scratches and dust.
Mounted horizontally on a tabletop, the
photographic print bares the gestural mark - making
of polyurethane wheels on a vulnerable
surface.
The chalk dust covering the façade and grounds
of a West Virginia limestone - grinding factory alludes to the
photographic surface, as chalk is used in the
printing process to absorb ink.