John Lehr “If there was”

Kate Werble Gallery

poster for John Lehr “If there was”

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John Lehr’s new exhibition, If there was, consists of 13 photographs that come from the artist’s precise camera observations of surfaces. Lehr’s works exist in the sustained
interaction between the physical and the digital. They begin as physical observations, executed digitally and then printed by the artist at a scale equal in size to the original subject. They are realized as a completed work only when viewed in person as the viewer is placed in the same position the artist was in when the photograph was rendered.

The photographs allow for an experience of reliving how they were made, looking across each picture, mark-by-mark. There is an added complexity that arises from the uncertainty of whether the gestures depicted in the image were created by the artist or an event that occurred before the artist’s intervention. Functioning as life-sized imprints of a specific area, Lehr’s works occupy a space between documentation and invention.

The indexical traces embedded in the works operate at the intersection of the tactile surface and the virtual screen. In this series, Lehr permanently records the fleeting moments of human interactions on walls, windows and doors but his subtle digital and material interventions render these images newly autonomous objects, even as they refer back to an actual space and time. As such Lehr’s photographs make a forceful argument for a careful consideration of the world outside the studio.

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Schedule

from April 11, 2015 to May 22, 2015

Opening Reception on 2015-04-11 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

John Lehr

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