Sculpture Into Photography
743 N. La Brea Avenue
Saturday, July 15 at 4:00 PM 7:00 PM
Ends Aug 19, 2023
Photography into Sculpture, the landmark exhibition curated by Peter Bunnell and staged at MoMA in 1970, began an exploration into artistic practices that challenged the perceived orthodoxy of photography as a flat medium. Technological and material advancements across both image making and image proliferation unique to each generation has required photography as a medium to regularly shed its skin, and with each renewal, photography has continued to carved out new spaces for meaning and connection to the realm of form and ideas. UV printing and dye sublimation, for example, have most recently enabled printing on nearly any material, regardless of depth or dimensionality. This exhibition contemporaneously reimagines the thesis of Bunnell’s exhibition, emphasizing practices that use three-dimensional form or sculpture to explore photography in a vast array of abstract modes. Selected artists, working across varied approaches and diverse practices but without an emphasis on concrete narrative, react to our image-saturated world and its attendant challenges toward engaging with photography in an art context. With works by Matthew Brandt, Brian Bress Rachel Browning, Valerie Green, Joey Frank Gregory Kalliche, Anthony Lepore, Robert Heinecken, Barbara Kasten, Soo Kim, Antonia Kuo, Adam Moskowitz, Matt Lipps, Christopher Richmond, and Letha Wilson
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