NYAB Event - Linda Cummings “Waterlines”

Linda Cummings “Waterlines”

dm contemporary NYC

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dm contemporary NYC is proud to present Waterlines, a solo exhibition featuring new work by artist Linda Cummings The
exhibition opens at dm contemporary NYC on Friday, October 4th,with a reception from 4 - 6 pm, and the work remains on view
through November 16th, 2013. This is Cummings’ third one-person exhibition with dm contemporary.

Over the past five years, water has taken on a central role in Cummings’ work. After all, right outside her Branford, Connecticut studio
runs the Farm River, that has become her favorite playground, her outdoor photo studio, and lab, and the subject of her year-long
project that culminated with the Stirring the Waters exhibition in 2010. In Cummings’ current exhibition, Waterlines, photographs quite
literally ‘spill’ from the wall, and in some cases, out of the frame. The installation recalls the flow of the river, and allows a conceptual
reversal of the photographs that have given form to what is essentially formless.

Cummings’ photographic process involves a series of actions, reactions, and interactions, inspired by the rhythm and the flow of the
river. Movement created on the surface of the water translates into ripples, that are echoed by the artist’s transcriptions and drawings
on paper, which is submerged in the water. The photographs - aided by the fluidity of the water, and the transformations caused by
sunlight - capture the essence of the artist’s experience with the river. In a recent interview with art historian and writer Renata Karlin,
Cummings compares her process to the transformations that occur in a traditional darkroom environment. Karlin writes: “Drawing lines
with lead that turn silver in the sunlight, Cummings draws our attention to the history of photographic darkroom processes, and the
making of silver gelatin prints in a watery bath.” In fact, some of her titles, such as ‘Silver Linings’, and ‘Slow Light’ allude to both the
‘slow time’ of historical darkroom process, and the ‘split second’ universe of the digital world. Photography has undergone a
tremendous technological change in the past two decades, which span the artist’s working career as a photographer.

Linda Cummings was born in Valley Forge, PA. She has a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and an MFA from
Mason Gross College of Art at Rutgers University, NJ. Cummings lives and works in New York City, and Branford, CT., and currently
teaches at the International Center of Photography in NY. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards and residencies,
including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Bronx Museum of Art, Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center and the New Jersey
Printmaking Council. Cummings’ photographs have been featured in fine art publications such as BLIND SPOT magazine, “Graver La
Lumiere” Exhibition Catalogue, and the “Director’s Cut” of APERTURE. Her work has been widely exhibited nationally and
internationally, and is in private as well as public collections, such as: the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian
(Washington, DC), Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Bronx Museum of the Arts (NY), Lehigh University (PA), Muskarell Museum (VA),
NYU Langone (NY), New York Health and Hospitals Corporation (NY), Museo Nazionale della Fotographia de Brescia (Italy), and
Musee Jenisch (Switzerland). In addition to her photographic practice, Cummings speaks at international and national conferences on
the psychology of the creative process.

[Image: Linda Cummings “photo outside the artist’s Connecticut studio alongside the Farm River” (2013)]

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