Art by Medium: Film

Cloud #18, 2014 from the series Rocks and Clouds 68 x 54 inch gelatin silver print Edition of 6 Also available as: 40 x 30 inch gelatin silver print Edition of 6

68 x 54 inch gelatin silver print Edition of 6 Also available as: 40 x 30 inch gelatin silver print Edition of 6

68 x 54 inch gelatin silver print Edition of 6 Also available as: 40 x 30 inch gelatin silver print Edition of 6

This large format, color-photograph belongs to Jay Mark Johnson's wave series - the images from which depict the rhythmic cycling and recycling of oceanfront waves as recorded on remote coastlines around the world--in Hawaii, Florida, California, the Caribbean, Great Britain, Australia and South Africa. These artworks belong to the artist’s ongoing inquiry into the possibilities for timeline photography. For this decades-long project Johnson employs an unconventional camera system to produce seamless delineated renderings of familiar events as they occur over time. The results present an altered view of our surroundings. Artworks from Johnson’s timeline series have been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. They can be found in the permanent collections of the Bundestag (German Parliament) in Berlin, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie at Karlsruhe, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Langen Foundation, Hombroich, Germany, the Peter Klein...