Caesura, 2016
uniques color photogram
40 x 30 inches
Caesura, 2016
unique color photogram
40 x 30 inches
Dings & Shadows, 2016
unique color photogram
24 x 20 inches
With titles likes Caesura, it's difficult not to think about recent ceramic works by Liz Larner, some with same or similar title (see here), and to further think about how they look the same frontally (formally) and therefore what they may actually represent despite their abstract ambiguity. I like how titles and materials can shape how we view abstract works. As abstract images, it's also not difficult to think about the photographic processes of both Walead Beshty which explore very similar means and Anthony Pearson who, in his photographic works, often embraces and celebrates an alchemical moment that delays resolution into a coherent, recognizable image. With Carey and Beshty it's a diverse, saturated range of color while Pearson remains more subdued and singular in the visual.
With Beshty and Pearson belonging to a younger generation, formally, and Larner somewhere in between, it leads to questions about the dialogue and how such practices can be differentiated. To be continued...
Liz Larner
vi (caesura), 2013
Ceramic, epoxy, and pigment
21 1/2 x 35 x 10 1/2 inches
Walead Beshty
Black Curl (CMY/Five Magnet: Irvine, California, March 26th 2010, Fujicolor Crystal Archive Super Type C, Em. No. 165-021, 05110), 2011
Color photographic paper
51 7/16 x 106 3/8 inches
Image not possible from gallery; see link below.
Untitled (Solarization), 2013
solarized silver gelatin print in artist's frame
17 x 12 x 0.75 inches
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