Carol Inez Charney Photography

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 Photography

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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 Photography

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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 Photography

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Aluminum

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 Photography

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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 Photography

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C Print

Christine MatthaiBetween Rain, 2016

$10,000

H 40 in W 60 in

Between Rain

By Christine Matthai

Located in Fairfield, CT

Also available 50 x 70 in. $9,500, edition of 10. Christine Matthäi was born in Germany. She lives and works between Shelter Island, New York, Germany and the Bahamas. Her LIGHT a...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Carol Inez Charney Photography

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C Print

Andrew GeorgePopsicle, 2012

$850

H 11 in W 17 in

Popsicle

Located in New York, NY

From the Secondhand Nature series #22. Archival Pigment Print on Canson Baryta Photographique IISigned, dated, and numbered 2/2 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angel...

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Early 2000s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Photography

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Photographic Film, C Print, Color, Archival Pigment

Seb JaniakPhoton 01 (Abstract Photography), 2012

$6,015

H 39.38 in W 52.37 in

Photon 01 (Abstract Photography)

By Seb Janiak

Located in London, GB

Photon 01 (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 Photography

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C Print

Lights in Motion Photograph Chromo Photo Kodak Professional Endura, c.2000

$300

H 11 in W 14 in

Lights in Motion Photograph Chromo Photo Kodak Professional Endura

Located in Surfside, FL

Artist Unknown. From Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow, a sizzling sunset by Peter Alexander, abstract compositions by Pauline Stella Sanchez and Jennifer Steinkamp...

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Early 2000s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Christine MatthaiDay Dream, 2016

$10,000

H 40 in W 60 in

Day Dream

By Christine Matthai

Located in Fairfield, CT

Also available 50 x 70 in. $9,500, edition of 10. Christine Matthäi was born in Germany. She lives and works between Shelter Island, New York, Germany and the Bahamas. Her LIGHT a...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Carol Inez Charney Photography

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C Print

Christine MatthaiGolden Dawn, 2016

$10,000

H 40 in W 60 in

Golden Dawn

By Christine Matthai

Located in Fairfield, CT

Also available 50 x 70 in. $9,500, edition of 10. Christine Matthäi was born in Germany. She lives and works between Shelter Island, New York, Germany and the Bahamas. Her LIGHT a...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Carol Inez Charney Photography

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C Print

Christine MatthaiMar Ligure, 2016

$10,000

H 40 in W 60 in

Mar Ligure

By Christine Matthai

Located in Fairfield, CT

Also available 50 x 70 in. $9,500, edition of 10. Christine Matthäi was born in Germany. She lives and works between Shelter Island, New York, Germany and the Bahamas. Her LIGHT an...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Carol Inez Charney Photography

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C Print

Christine MatthaiCaribbean Blues, 2016

$10,000

H 40 in W 60 in

Caribbean Blues

By Christine Matthai

Located in Fairfield, CT

Also available 50 x 70 in. $9,500, edition of 10. Christine Matthäi was born in Germany. She lives and works between Shelter Island, New York, Germany and the Bahamas. Her LIGHT a...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Carol Inez Charney Photography

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C Print

Christine MatthaiStill, 2016

$10,000

H 40 in W 60 in

Still

By Christine Matthai

Located in Fairfield, CT

Also available 50 x 70 in. $9,500, edition of 10. Christine Matthäi was born in Germany. She lives and works between Shelter Island, New York, Germany and the Bahamas. Her LIGHT a...

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2010s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Photography

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C Print

Christine MatthaiEcho, 2016

$10,000

H 40 in W 60 in

Echo

By Christine Matthai

Located in Fairfield, CT

Also available 50 x 70 in. $9,500, edition of 10. Christine Matthäi was born in Germany. She lives and works between Shelter Island, New York, Germany and the Bahamas. Her LIGHT a...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Carol Inez Charney Photography

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C Print

Christine MatthaiLight Path, 2016

$10,000

H 40 in W 60 in

Light Path

By Christine Matthai

Located in Fairfield, CT

Also available 50 x 70 in. $9,500, edition of 10. Christine Matthäi was born in Germany. She lives and works between Shelter Island, New York, Germany and the Bahamas. Her LIGHT a...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Carol Inez Charney Photography

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C Print

Andrew GeorgeNew Leaf, 2003

$850

H 14 in W 11 in

New Leaf

Located in New York, NY

Lambda digital-c print on Fujiflex Archival Super Gloss. Signed and numbered 1/4 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angeles. He recently premiered his latest series of ...

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Early 2000s Abstract Carol Inez Charney Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda

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