Installation view, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. 2024. Photo: Jueqian Fang.
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Overexposures: Photographs from the Henry Collection
01/11/2024 - 02/03/2025
The Henry (Art Gallery)
15th Avenue NE + NE 41st Street
University of Washington
WA 98195 Seattle
henryart.org/
This focused presentation features a selection of photographs from the Henry’s collections that explore uses of light to obscure, obliterate, and alter the photographic subject. Contrary to common conceptions of light as an innate aspect of the environment that passively aids vision, these images engage light as a device imposed upon a scene, intentionally framing what we see and how we see it. Beneath light sources both diffuse and punctuating, the subjects in these photographs navigate vulnerability and concealment. Here, luminosity obfuscates the supposed realities of space, time, movement, and identity, and reveals deeper truths than what sit at the surface of perception.
Featured artists, including Karen Truax (U.S., b. 1946), Manuel Lucero (U.S., b. 1942), Aneta Grzeszykowska (Poland, b. 1974), and Arthur S. Siegel (U.S., 1913-1978), experiment with staging and photographic processes to capture instances in which light becomes tangible and active. Their images explore the work of light, exposure, and projection in conjunction with exertions of power, performance, and perspective.
01/11/2024 - 02/03/2025
The Henry (Art Gallery)
15th Avenue NE + NE 41st Street
University of Washington
WA 98195 Seattle
henryart.org/
This focused presentation features a selection of photographs from the Henry’s collections that explore uses of light to obscure, obliterate, and alter the photographic subject. Contrary to common conceptions of light as an innate aspect of the environment that passively aids vision, these images engage light as a device imposed upon a scene, intentionally framing what we see and how we see it. Beneath light sources both diffuse and punctuating, the subjects in these photographs navigate vulnerability and concealment. Here, luminosity obfuscates the supposed realities of space, time, movement, and identity, and reveals deeper truths than what sit at the surface of perception.
Featured artists, including Karen Truax (U.S., b. 1946), Manuel Lucero (U.S., b. 1942), Aneta Grzeszykowska (Poland, b. 1974), and Arthur S. Siegel (U.S., 1913-1978), experiment with staging and photographic processes to capture instances in which light becomes tangible and active. Their images explore the work of light, exposure, and projection in conjunction with exertions of power, performance, and perspective.