Carol Inez Charney Art

American

"In 2013, I first saw Carol Inez Charney’s striking semi-abstract photographs depicting details of modernist architecture partially obscured by and refracted by water. These large photographs, printed on aluminum, and unframed, were photographic, naturally, but also painterly, with the streams of water that seemingly flowed down an invisible, interposed glass pane both breaking up the image and reassembling it into painterly abstractions reminiscent of the works by Pollock, Still, Rauschenberg, Johns and others that had fascinated Charney as a student, launching her art career. "In her latest body of work, After Painting, from 2016, Charney focuses completely on culture, i.e., universally beloved paintings by Leonardo, Van Eyck, Van Gogh, Monet, Matisse, Chagall and Picasso, all made before 1923, and now in the public domain. Using high-quality reproductions, Charney rephotographs details from the works and groups them in twos and threes—into diptychs or triptychs, to employ the art-historical term used for multi-panel paintings. The ‘After’ designation refers to the art-historian’s way of labeling copies of old artworks made by admiring younger artists, a common practice before the advent of photography, and a way of paying homage to and learning from the past: Van Gogh copied Rubens, and Rubens copied Leonardo, and so on. Sometimes this hands-on method of assimilation resulted in creative variations, like Picasso’s innumerable Velasquez variations, or Manet’s quotations (or parodies) of Giorgione and Titian. "Charney’s gradual shift of interest from the natural world to the world of visual culture is not unique in our postmodernist age, which looks at and to cultural production in the way that past artists looked at and to nature. If collage was the core of modernist art, appropriation, the quotation or sampling of previous art, could be said to be postmodernism’s. Sherrie Levine in her 1980s After Walker Evans photographs rephotographed the great social documentarian’s photos of the 1930s. Cindy Sherman’s faux movie stills, with the photographer costumed and made up to resemble archetypal movie heroines, but from movies never made, are another example of art deriving from other art. "Charney’s creative reuse of master paintings, however, reflects none of the postmodernist questioning of originality cited above. With degrees in both painting and photography, Charney is an admitted “frustrated painter” who found photography more congenial than painting, but still seeks the complex ‘conversation,’ or moment’ provided by the slower, handmade medium. In Charney’s carefully assembled diptychs and triptychs, we see iconic modernist paintings anew, through the artist’s curtain of rivulets, enriched by water’s metaphorical associations with time, change, metamorphosis and the unconscious. A century ago, Marcel Duchamp mocked what he considered at the time the connoisseur’s fetishistic interest in the painter’s hand and touch; Charney’s photographic studies, which “reinterpret classical painting,” let us revel in that handiwork, made invisible to us through familiarity, perhaps, through her sharp eye and lens. —DeWitt Cheng

Artist: Carol Inez Charney

Carol Inez CharneyAfter Vincent Van Gogh: Almond Blossom 1890, 2017

$10,800

After Vincent Van Gogh: Almond Blossom 1890, 2017

By Carol Inez Charney

Located in Fairfield, CT

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --In 2013, I first saw Carol Inez Charney’s striking semi-abstract photographs depicting details of modernist architecture partially ob...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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C Print

Carol Inez CharneyAfter Henri Matisse: The Goldfish 1 1912, 2017

$8,200

After Henri Matisse: The Goldfish 1 1912, 2017

By Carol Inez Charney

Located in Fairfield, CT

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --In 2013, I first saw Carol Inez Charney’s striking semi-abstract photographs depicting details of modernist architecture partially ob...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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C Print

Carol Inez CharneyAfter Leonardo Da Vinci: Mona Lisa 1 1503, 2017

$7,200

After Leonardo Da Vinci: Mona Lisa 1 1503, 2017

By Carol Inez Charney

Located in Fairfield, CT

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --In 2013, I first saw Carol Inez Charney’s striking semi-abstract photographs depicting details of modernist architecture partially ob...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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C Print

Carol Inez CharneyAfter Henri Matisse: The Goldfish 2 1912, 2017

$8,200

After Henri Matisse: The Goldfish 2 1912, 2017

By Carol Inez Charney

Located in Fairfield, CT

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --In 2013, I first saw Carol Inez Charney’s striking semi-abstract photographs depicting details of modernist architecture partially ob...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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C Print

Carol Inez CharneyCB4

$5,200

CB4

By Carol Inez Charney

Located in Fairfield, CT

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Charney writes of her process: “For many years, I'd been trying to combine painting and photography with very contrived results...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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Aluminum

Candida HoferCandida Höfer, Colored Wood: Signed Photograph, Abstract Photography, 2017

$3,980

H 22.05 in W 22.72 in

Candida Höfer, Colored Wood: Signed Photograph, Abstract Photography

By Candida Hofer

Located in Hamburg, DE

Candida Höfer (German, born 1944) Colored Wood, 2017 Medium: C-Print Dimensions: 56 × 57.7 cm (22 × 22 7/10 in) Edition of 100: Hand-signed and numbered on verso Condtion: Mint

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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C Print

Richard HeepsRetaining Wall II, Rockingham - Abstract Blue Color Photograph, 2003

$944

H 33.47 in W 39.38 in D 1.97 in

Retaining Wall II, Rockingham - Abstract Blue Color Photograph

By Richard Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

Blue abstract photograph from Richard Heeps' series Trading Paint. Richard Heeps has a history of photographing Drag Racing in the UK, America and Europe. Trading Paint is a term tha...

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Early 2000s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Stephen MallonTrimmings

$4,200

H 30 in W 45 in

Trimmings

By Stephen Mallon

Located in New York, NY

C Print Photograph, signed on reverse available as 30"x45" edition of 5 This is from Stephen Mallon's series, "American Reclamation" which captures the abstract beauty within d...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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C Print

Stephen MallonWall Scratches

$4,200

H 30 in W 45 in

Wall Scratches

By Stephen Mallon

Located in New York, NY

C Print Photograph, signed on reverse available as 30"x45" edition of 5 This is from Stephen Mallon's series, "American Reclamation" which captures the abstract beauty within d...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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C Print

Richard HeepsThe Streets of Kowloon (navy), Hong Kong - Abstract color photography, 2016

$944

H 31.5 in W 44.1 in D 1.97 in

The Streets of Kowloon (navy), Hong Kong - Abstract color photography

By Richard Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

Streets of Kowloon Navy, part of Richard Heeps series photographing on the streets of Hong Kong in Kowloon in 2016 this stunning abstract piece is so striking in a room. The whole 20...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Richard HeepsThe Streets of Kowloon (gold), Hong Kong - Abstract color photography, 2016

$944

H 31.5 in W 44.1 in D 1.97 in

The Streets of Kowloon (gold), Hong Kong - Abstract color photography

By Richard Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

Streets of Kowloon Gold, part of Richard Heeps series photographing on the streets of Hong Kong in Kowloon in 2016 this stunning abstract piece is so striking in a room. The whole 20...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Stephen MallonNothing Has Changed (framed)

$7,450

H 40 in W 60 in

Nothing Has Changed (framed)

By Stephen Mallon

Located in New York, NY

40"x 60" framed photograph, edition of 5 This photograph is from Stephen Mallon's series, "American Reclamation" and depicts bails of recycled metal. It is presented framed and m...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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C Print

Stephen MallonAluminum Siding Bale

$7,450

H 60 in W 40 in

Aluminum Siding Bale

By Stephen Mallon

Located in New York, NY

60"x40" framed photograph This photograph is from Stephen Mallon's series, "American Reclamation" and depicts bailed Aluminum Siding. The recycling industry in America and its va...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Seb JaniakPhoton 06 (Abstract Photography), 2012

$5,939

H 39.38 in W 52.37 in

Photon 06 (Abstract Photography)

By Seb Janiak

Located in London, GB

Photon 06 (Abstract Photography) Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5. In his Photon series, Janiak explores the intrinsic duality of light. The photons we interpret as light exist in a ...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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C Print

Seb JaniakMagnetic radiation 11 (Abstract Photography), 2012

$5,939

H 43.31 in W 43.31 in

Magnetic radiation 11 (Abstract Photography)

By Seb Janiak

Located in London, GB

Magnetic radiation 11 (Abstract Photography) Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5. In his Magnetic radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing ferrofl...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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C Print

Seb JaniakMagnetic radiation 02 (Abstract Photography), 2012

$5,939

H 43.31 in W 43.31 in

Magnetic radiation 02 (Abstract Photography)

By Seb Janiak

Located in London, GB

Magnetic radiation 02 (Abstract Photography) Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5. In his Magnetic radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing ferrofluids. A ferrofluid is a liquid substance magnetized through the introduction of iron particles. Janiak introduced magnetic forces to the ferrofluid, moving the magnets into different configurations to cause the colloidal mixture to assume various forms that reveal the otherwise invisible nature of magnetic activity. The forms reveal ancient forces, those that shaped the universe at its beginning. Seb Janiak is a photographic artist whose work explores conditions in which opposites can co-exist, revealing the visual characteristics of the hidden forces...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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C Print

Seb JaniakRésonance - water drop 84 (Medium), 2016

$5,939

H 43.31 in W 43.31 in

Résonance - water drop 84 (Medium)

By Seb Janiak

Located in London, GB

Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5. In his Résonance series, Janiak explores the role of sound in creation. Taking inspiration from sacred texts from multiple spiritual traditions, he p...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Art

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C Print

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