“Petroleum Jelly” Exhibition
Clifton Benevento
This event has ended.
Often referred to as an optical aberration, a soft focus effect in photography can be created through the use of petroleum jelly. Smearing the messy substance on the lens diffuses the subject, producing a dreamlike representation. Although none of the artists in Petroleum Jellyproduce lens-based media, they could be considered analog in their approach to image/object making.
In this exhibition we see the employment of various materials and methods to blur, soften and re-imagine subjects. Some objects appear amorphous, whiles others have been molded in loose representational forms. Purposefully imperfect, the ceramics, paintings and sculptures on view appear fragile yet somehow alive.
Media
Schedule
from March 08, 2014 to April 12, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-03-08 from 17:00 to 19:00
Artist(s)
Polly Apfelbaum, John Burtle, Kirsten Nash, David Zuttermeister