Fall and Folds
2016/2019
From “Art History” series
Endura metallic color prints, 30 x 30 in. each, three metal stands
“Held apart yet connected to the supporting wall, the slides make a break from the conditions of their beholding on the flat wall and project into space as objects, sculptures even. Blown up to the approximate size of a painting, the images reward close viewing through their foregrounding of the surfaces textures manifested by the artist’s merging of slide images with scanned transparencies in Photoshop; the surfaces recall the textures and illuminating effects of 16th and 17th-century Italian glazing techniques, putting subject matter, process, and exhibition display in an exciting transhistorical conversation. Large color-coded stickers dot the edges of the images, reminding the viewer of their designated place within a site-specific archival image community—a theme turned humorous in an image in the second gallery with Color Code, which captures a scattering of the colorful stickers as they fell of the slides during the process of researching and producing these images. The precision of this digital image negates and renders absurd the equal precision of the archival system and the stickers that serve as indexical remainders of those systems, posing questions for the future of these slide collections as they descend deeper into outmodedness.” Jordan Amirkhani, Burnaway exhibition review, whitespace Atlanta, 2016
