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Jordan Tate, New Work #141, 2012, 1/10 framed pigment prints, 16 x 20", courtesy of the artist and Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell
Anthony Pearson, Untitled (Flare), 2011, C-print in artist frame, 53 x 37 x 1.5", courtesy of the artist and Shane Campbell Gallery, photograph by Lee Thompson
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3209 Madison Road, 2nd floor
Cincinnati, OH 45209
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Tuesday through Saturday 10 am–5 pm
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Light Castings: Photographic Installations by Jordan Tate and Anthony Pearson
Organized by Lisa Kurzner
October 1–October 27
Recently photography has engaged the three dimensional form with renewed passion. The objecthood of the photograph, the indexicality of the photographic subject, and the theater of photographic installation converge in engaging new work by two young artists, each merging a conceptual rigor with an appreciation of both older process and digital technologies alike. Inheritors of the post modernism’s photographic turn, Anthony Pearson and Jordan Tate scramble the tools of the medium into seductive works of art.
Light Castings showcases new attitudes about photography as object and representation, as a form that embraces the optical, the sculptural, and the cinematic. Both Tate and Pearson maintain studio-based practices in which they parlay selected elements into a specific vocabulary of forms. They reach back to the medium’s beginnings to redefine the tools of photography transformed by digital culture, to different ends. Photography derives from the Greek “writing with light;” questions about the photographic process itself appear in ways and means in each body of work. Casting refers to the process of creating a multidimensional multiple from a single matrix, either photographic negative, digital file, or plaster mold. The example of James Welling’s work, in which the subject/form relationship differs for each photographic project, creates a point of shared concern for both artists.
Following the path hewn in past decades by Welling, both artists select and apply photographic techniques and operations very specifically; they assume topical important roles in each body of work. The process, the materials, and history are taught and told here. The direct experience of photographic process and the resultant focus on materiality takes center stage in both artists’ work: Tate takes an open-source stance of infinite repeatability, while Pearson’s self-referential, closed system of art making relies on the properties of the unique.
Anthony Pearson is courtesy of Shane Campbell Gallery. For more information: info@shanecampbellgallery.com
For more information on Jordan Tate: Lisa@KurznerArts.com
http://www.shanecampbellgallery.com/
http://www.jordantate.com/
Where art meets practicality, Voltage is the only retail store of its kind in the entire region, specializing in modern furniture, lighting, and accessories from Europe, including Italy, Denmark, Holland, and Germany. In conjunction with FOTOFOCUS, Voltage transforms an area on the second floor into a beautifully austere white space. Opened in 1989 by Jeff Hinkley (an architect by trade) Voltage reflects the conjunction of his architectural background and a passion for interior design.