Leila Spilman: Lotsa Love
2785 East Foothill Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107
Thursday, June 8 at 5:00 PM 7:00 PM
Ends Jul 13, 2023
Simchowitz is pleased to present Lotsa Love by Leila Spilman (b. 1994 Sante Fe, New Mexico). The exhibition can be seen as a ‘generational collaboration’ between herself and her grandfather, Alden Spilman, an experimental and historical photographer from the 1960s and 70s. Leila spent time with her grandfather in his studio and discovered a number of prints and negatives that had been degraded due to moisture, mold and time. She degraded them further with various chemicals until rescanning what had survived the process. These works are neither wholly abstract or wholly representational, nor are they clearly photographs or paintings. They exist somewhere in between. For Spilman, they can be seen as portals into both her past and future. They tap into the “deepest relationship of her life” as she describes her relationship to her grandfather.
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