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The Infinities (Of Earth, Heaven & Light)


“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.”    William Blake

"When I feel a terrible need of—shall I say the word?—religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars." —Vincent van Gogh, letter to Eugène Bock, September 1888

 

Wonderful Catalog essay by Lynn Gamwell from 2016 Paris Exhibition at Galerie Karsten Greve titled, "Of Earth, Heaven and Light".

2013-2019 This new series of photographic abstractions are part of a life-long project titled: Rethinking The Natural. There have always been elements of abstraction in my work but this time I have combined multiple components such as mold grown in my studio, stars downloaded from robot cameras in space, snowflakes captured on a winter’s night, magnolia trees blooming in spring and unique camera-less Light Projections which I devised for this project and are at the heart of these images. (The Light Projections have been awarded the prestigious World Photography Award for conceptual photography in 2014 as well as being honored in American Photography 30.)

This new body of work is about my idea of the Infinite as it pertains to systems and spaces that we humans can not perceive. I am trying to visualize what the world would look like in its totality. With this series I don’t "take" the photograph, I build it from the ground up. I am very interested in the marks I can make in the darkroom using an entropic process I have developed over the years. I’m equally interested in the ideas I can generate and the ensuing questions I can bring to the medium, its history, language and close ties with painting. For, above all, photography is a language and I believe it’s a medium that is still in its infancy yet moving forward at a very rapid rate.   

Nice short video that explains the work is here and here

All of my work is about process, looking at things very closely, the marks I can generate with the silver metals in black and white photo paper and especially exploring the spaces between photography and mark making. My work has had a great deal to do with manipulating the photographic surface and this series is also another extension of that exploration.

If there is a rule that defines what a photograph is today it is simply that there are no rules. The question today is just what constitutes a photograph? If every mark in a photograph is made by hand with a camera, lens and light sensitive materials processed in the darkroom, yet it seems more a drawing than anything else then what kind of photograph is it?  Abstraction, Photographic Document or Dream? 

On a good day my images are all three.

 

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Installation View: Of Earth, Heaven and Light at Karsten Greve, Koln

 

 

 

 

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 Infinities #8 (for Whistler)
Infinities #8 (for Whistler)

39x51" Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
Hahnemuhle Baryta Satin

99x127 cm

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Infinities #4 (for Duchamp)
Infinities #4 (for Duchamp)

38"x47" Edition of 5, Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
Hahnemuhle Baryta Satin

91.5x117 cm

Framed dark Walnut 36.5x46

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Installation view
Installation view
Exhibition Karsten Greve Gallery
Exhibition Karsten Greve Gallery

2017 Light Projections and Infinities. Over 40+ works

Light Projection Variation #1
Light Projection Variation #1

38"x47" Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
Hahnemuhle Baryta Satin
91.5x117 cm
Framed 41 x50"

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Installation view Berlin 2023
Installation view Berlin 2023
Infinities #3
Infinities #3

This work is now a French Postal Stamp!
33'x40.5" Image size on 47x40 paper. Edition of 5, Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
Hahnemuhle Baryta Satin

51x45" Framed 1/5

Detail
Detail

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)

Exhibition Karsten Greve Gallery
Exhibition Karsten Greve Gallery

2017 Light Projections and Infinities. Over 40+ works

Light Projection Variation #2
Light Projection Variation #2

38"x47" Edition of 5, Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
Hahnemuhle Baryta Satin
91.5x117 cm

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Exhibiton Catalog
Exhibiton Catalog
Infinities #5 (For Edwin Hubble)
Infinities #5 (For Edwin Hubble)

38"x47" Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
Hahnemuhle Baryta Satin

91.5x117 cm
Framed 41 x 50

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Infinities #13
Infinities #13

40'x51" Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
Hahnemuhle Baryta Satin

101.6x129.5 cm

detail
detail

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)

Infinities #20
Infinities #20

39x49.5" Edition of 5, Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
Hahnemuhle Baryta Satin
99x125 cm

Detail
Detail

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)

Exhibition Karsten Greve Gallery / Koln
Exhibition Karsten Greve Gallery / Koln
Infinities #1 (For Moholy Nagy)
Infinities #1 (For Moholy Nagy)

38"x47" Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
91.5x117 cm

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Infinities #15 (For MF)   (2016)
Infinities #15 (For MF) (2016)

28.5 x 50" Gelatin Silver Print
edition of 3

23 x40" edition of 3

58 x 101 cm & 74 x 127 cm

Detail  of Infinities #15 (For MF)   (2013-2016)
Detail of Infinities #15 (For MF) (2013-2016)

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)

Infinities #22  (For Riley) 2016
Infinities #22 (For Riley) 2016

36'x47" Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.

91.5x117 cm

Detail of Infinities #22
Detail of Infinities #22

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)

Infinities #25
Infinities #25

38"x47" Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Infinities #6  2013
Infinities #6 2013

38"x47" Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
91.5x117 cm
Maple Frame 41 x50"

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Infinities #25    2016
Infinities #25 2016

36'x47" Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.

91.5x117 cm

Detail of Infinities #25
Detail of Infinities #25

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)

Infinities #23  For E.J. Marey 2016
Infinities #23 For E.J. Marey 2016

36x30" Edition of 5,
Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
Hahnemuhle Baryta Satin

93 x72 cm

Detail of Infinities #23
Detail of Infinities #23

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)

Study
Study
Detail
Detail

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)

Infinities #10
Infinities #10

37 1/4 x 46 2/3 x 1 3/4 in
Edition of 5, Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
Hahnemuhle Baryta Satin

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Detail
Detail

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)

Infinities #2 (2013)
Infinities #2 (2013)

36'x47" Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival inks.

Maple Frame 41 x50"

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Infinities #15 (For MF)
Infinities #15 (For MF)

Color Version 82x47"

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Infinities #7 ( for Riley)
Infinities #7 ( for Riley)

38"x47" Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
91.5x117 cm

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)
Infinities #29
Infinities #29

38"x47" Edition of 5, 100% rag paper printed with 100 year archival pigment inks.
Hahnemuhle Baryta Satin
91.5x117 cm

Detail of Infinities #29
Detail of Infinities #29

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)

Infinities #27 (For Midge)  2016  Framed
Infinities #27 (For Midge) 2016 Framed

30x33" Edition of 5,
Chromogenic print
76x82 cm

Detail  of Infinities #27
Detail of Infinities #27

Detail of print at full size (large editioned prints only)

Infinities Installation View
Infinities Installation View

2017 Light Projections and Infinities. Over 40+ works

Exhibition Catalog for Download  via home page
Exhibition Catalog for Download via home page

Download this via home page.

Of Earth, Heaven and Light
Light Projections and Infinities

Press Release for Download
Press Release for Download
Thomas Brummett 2016 Paris Exhibition: Of Heaven Earth and Light,  November 5th, 2016
Thomas Brummett 2016 Paris Exhibition: Of Heaven Earth and Light, November 5th, 2016

"Of Earth, Heaven and Light"
Galerie Karsten Greve / Paris.
November 5th opening night to Dec 30th 2016.

Selections from the series Infinities and Light Projections. Over 40 Works including unique silver prints, large scale black and white prints, chromogenic prints and color pigment prints.

 Gallery Catalog Essay for  download
Gallery Catalog Essay for download

Please download the entire catalog Essay by Lynn Gamwell for Exhibiton at Karsten Greve Gallery Paris, "Of Earth, Heaven and Light", November 2016

BERLIN EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE
BERLIN EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE
Video of 2023 Exhibition in Berlin
Video of 2023 Exhibition in Berlin

Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation Exhibition of selections from my 2013 series Light Projections and Infinities.

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