Penelope Stewart

Plate 11, Novelle Botanique, diazotype custom blue frame

2018

Pamela Ellis Hawkes's innovative photography revitalizes antique traditions of still life painting with a playful contemporary spirit and a keen eye for seductively mysterious beauty. Her work often exposes viewers' differing expectations from photography and painting, and this surprising parallax illuminates of the changing meanings of artistic images in the visual cultures of the past and the rapidly changing present. “Three Shelves...

Nielsen's signature photograms are created using a light exposure process wherein Nielsen arranges compositions over light sensitive paper which are exposed 10 to 50 times per work, ...

Liz Nielsen is an experimental photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her photographs are made without a camera and can also be described as light paintings. She works in the analog color darkroom exposing light-sensitive paper and processing it through traditional photographic chemicals. Each image is unique and ranges in size from 100" x 100" to 4" x 5". Liz has exhibited her work extensively including recent solo exhibitions in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Paris. Her photograms have been featured at international art fairs such as Paris Photo...

Nielsen's signature photograms are created using a light exposure process wherein Nielsen arranges compositions over light sensitive paper which are exposed 10 to 50 times per work, ...

Nielsen's signature photograms are created using a light exposure process wherein Nielsen arranges compositions over light sensitive paper which are exposed 10 to 50 times per work, ...

Peonies, 2022 Unique Cyanotype print Cyanotype gives a contemporary edge to this flirty dialogue made from vintage magazines, and brings conversation to the counterculture of the "swinging sixties". + Cyanotype hand-printed on Arches BFK Rives French watercolor paper + Deckled Edges on all four sides + Signed and editioned on front in pencil + Letter of Authenticity + Printed in Los Angeles, CA WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE? cyan = blue type = print Cyanotype is a historic photographic processes, invented in 1842 and used by Anna Atkins–the first female photographer. The process involves coating watercolor paper with light-sensitive chemistry made of iron salts. Photographic negatives are laid on top, exposed in the sunlight, and then washed in water to develop into the deep Prussian-blue unique to cyanotypes. Brings a moment of beauty and conversation to any space. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Alexandra DeFurio...