Created with a large-format analog camera, Jessica Eaton's latest works further investigate the fundamental properties of photography.
The exhibition features three new bodies of work that challenge the photographic medium as a surrogate for human vision. The Transitions series builds on the artist's acclaimed Cubes For Albers and LeWitt (cfaal) series, utilizing additive color techniques and layering of multiple exposures to produce increasingly complex, geometric compositions in rich, saturated hues. Also on view will be a selection of Pictures for Women, celebrated examples of artwork by female artists as interpreted through Eaton's experimental camera techniques. In part influenced by her earlier works such as cfaal 18 (mb RGB) where Eaton used motion blur to move the film, these new pictures are photographed on kinetic sets to create dynamic, looped forms bathed in luminous color. Images from the Revolutions series also use these kinetic set-ups, but where the Pictures for Women have real world references, the Revolutions are set against black backgrounds, with colors that emerge from Eaton's own grayscale patterns through her trademark color separation techniques.
Opening Reception at M+B Gallery in Los Angeles on Saturday, Setpember 24th, 6-8 P.M.
