Corey Escoto “Surface Tension”
Taymour Grahne Gallery
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Taymour Grahne Gallery presentx Surface Tension, a solo exhibition of work by Texas-born, Pittsburgh-based artist Corey Escoto. Pairing a series of manipulated Polaroid photographs with corresponding sculptures that use the images as their structural blueprint, Escoto inverts and explores the relationship of the three-dimensional world to the flat, two-dimensional surface of its representation.
For this series Escoto uses the recently discontinued Fuji Color FP-100c45 ‘Polaroid’ film, the last of the remaining commercial 4x5 instant film stock. Escoto states: “I am interested in the simultaneous emergence of digital photographic technologies, the waning of analog photography, the vast archive of images available on the Internet, and the possibilities that exist for the brief time that these technologies coexist.”
Modifying his camera to allow for the layering of hand-cut stencils and filters, Escoto creates multiple exposures that record and reveal flummoxing visuals. The resulting images are derived from reality and yet do not document the observable world. In contrast to the supposed photographic truthfulness of the Polaroid, Escoto’s slight of hand invokes the trope of photographer-as-magician, proving the medium to be as deceptive as it is representational.
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Schedule
from March 13, 2014 to April 13, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-03-13 from 18:00 to 20:00