Lisa Oppenheim Exhibition
Harris Lieberman
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Harris Lieberman presents Lisa Oppenheim’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. In three distinct but related series, photographs weave together historic and modern references. Through processing, repetition and performance, the source material is abstracted into allusive compositions.
The main gallery will feature iterations of the series Leisure Work and Smoke. Leisure Work, in which folds of antique lace multiply in successive prints, derives its title from the classification of lace-making in an early twentieth century Belgian census. As part of her studio work, folding the lace is a step in a performance and occupation for Oppenheim while also a gesture to the history of photography and William Henry Fox Talbot’s early experiments with lace calotypes.
In Smoke, cropped photographs of smoke rising from riots or volcanoes, among other fires, become a screen through which photographic paper is exposed and then re-exposed by a torch, producing a solarized image. Fire generates the content and the print, collapsing distinctions in medium, time and context. The images are moored solely by their titles, which are drawn from the original photographs’ captions. The rear gallery will feature a series of the night sky that further explores the reciprocal relationships found throughout the exhibition. Based on a late nineteenth century photograph tracing the lunar path, Oppenheim’s modern image transfer is developed by moonlight.
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Schedule
from May 04, 2012 to June 16, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-05-04 from 18:00 to 20:00