Not exact matches
Forsyth often
uses extensive digital
manipulation in editing his images, resulting in a
photographic aesthetic that is highly stylised and immediately recognisable.
Whereas the painters in Nature Studies I may have found creative impetus from photographically - reproduced work or
used it as part of their method, these eight artists employ a host of respective
photographic processes that, for the most part, draw our attention to the concerns, formats and styles typically seen in and expected of painting such as the artifice of arrangement, the
manipulation of formal elements, and the projection of symbolic meaning or narrative content.
Though each of the
photographic works in this exhibition have been altered through digital
manipulation, the tools of collage, illustration, deconstruction, redaction, surrealism are
used in different measures by the exhibiting artists.
Framing the profound questions posed by these artists, authors Gary Garrels, Jim Lewis, Christopher Phillips, Sandra Phillips, Robert Riley and Abigail Solomon - Godeau analyze how the
use and
manipulation of
photographic images shape our culture.