Penelope Umbrico “Silvery Light”
Bruce Silverstein
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Bruce Silverstein announces our representation of Penelope Umbrico and her inaugural exhibition at the gallery.
For Silvery Light, Umbrico creates an installation of new photographic and video works related to her continued practice of utilizing the limitless archive of photographic images online. This new work investigates projective and reflective light in relation to the history of photography, digital imaging technologies, and the screen as light source.
In the front gallery, Umbrico has installed the video piece Four Photographs of Rays of Sunlight in Grand Central…, a collection of hundreds of iterations the artist found online of the iconic black and white photograph of sun rays through windows at Grand Central Station. Umbrico identified four versions of this original image of Grand Central Station, repeated over multiple websites selling the images as posters or vintage prints, treated with different color filters, cropping, and “watermarks.” For each of these images she attempts to find the attribution, which, on these sites, is as varied as the aesthetic treatments to which the images have been subjected.
In the back gallery, Umbrico turns to the photo-sharing website Flickr to explore how the full moon is photographed and shared. Everyone’s Photos Any License; Screenshot 2015-11-04 14.22.59 is a screenshot from her computer of every image tagged “full moon” on Flickr (1,146,034 images total), which Umbrico out-putted as a single print running the length of the gallery. The individual subjective experience of witnessing and photographing the moon is revealed as a collective practice, seen re-contextualized in its entirety, with new impact and effect.
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Schedule
from January 07, 2016 to February 20, 2016