| About the Exhibition
Opening reception: Second Thursday, March 11, 6 - 9 pm
Artist included:
Richard Benson, Matthew Brandt, Donald Camp, gdloft, Bryan
Graf, KesselsKramer Publishing, Khanh Le, Susan Lipper, David
Benjamin Sherry, and Ann Woo.
The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center is excited to announce
the exhibition and opening reception for .matrix. In
printmaking, prints are created from a single original surface,
technically known as a matrix. In this exhibition, the idea
of the matrix or “mold” is used as a metaphor
for both infinitely reproducible and sacred images. The participating
artists share an inherent interest in pushing the limits of
the printed image and how it is created, used and disseminated.
Richard Benson, Don Camp and Matthew Brandt have each developed
unique printing processes to create prints that reflect both
the depth and timelessness of their subject matter while emphasizing
the photograph’s material.
David Benjamin Sherry, GDLoft, and Bryan Graf will each create
site-specific installations that play with cultural obsessions
of fantasy, beauty, youth culture, the spectacle, the Internet,
surveillance, and paranoia.
KesselsKramer and Khahn Le re-contextualize images ranging
from personal snap shots to magazine pictures to iconic photographs
that have been imbedded in our memories, melding the personal
and collective experience.
Susan Lipper and Ann Woo both work by grouping non-associated
subject matter to create contexts that would otherwise be
impossible, letting our mind wonder through daydreams, terrors
and the unexplainable.
.matrix also showcases a wide range of printing techniques
including photographic casein monoprints, salted paper &
carbon prints, polymer photogravure etching prints, gelatin
silver prints, chromogenic color photographs and inkjet prints.
About the Gallery
The goal of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center is to make
Philadelphia a place where important photography gets made,
shown and talked about. Emerging local photographers are essential
to that goal. They will be our photo community's next leaders
and the source of important new work and new ideas.
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