“Towards the Light” Exhibition
The Muriel Guépin Gallery
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Celebrated for presenting critical works by emerging artists who utilize innovative practices and materials, Muriel Guépin Gallery presents the exhibition, “Towards the Light,” featuring works by Ole Brodersen and James Minden, both of whom use light to create unpredictable compositions, make the unseen visible, and transform still images into untraceable events.
Ole Brodersen starts with unpredictable natural forces and photographic processes to arrive at concrete, two-dimensional color works. After assembling LED lights in a landscape, Ole sets up a large format camera with a long exposure. He allows winds, waves and currents to interact with the lights. Ole surrenders to the unseen forces of nature and the unpredictability of his photographic process, allowing the compositions to create themselves. The results are vibrant swaths of light leaping through ethereal compositions.
Unlike Ole, James Minden starts with a precise, controlled process, incising sheets of plastic with concentric and/or overlapping ellipses. When lit from a single point source, his previously still drawings become holograms, their layers and movement alive and untraceable.
Ole starts from a place of unpredictability, capturing in 2-dimensional form natural forces we can feel (wind, waves, currents), but not see. James starts with a controlled, tight process, later adding light to arrive at something unpredictable and less traceable. While James and Ole start from opposite ends of the spectrum of control, they both allow light and related processes to add elements of unpredictability, resulting in mysterious, movement-filled “light paintings.”
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Schedule
from April 18, 2014 to May 31, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-04-18 from 18:30 to 20:00