Untitled (H.B.)

Liz DeschenesWW-2014-144165

2014·Chromogenic prints (2)

<p>These two prints are photograms, photographic images made without a camera. Liz Deschenes modeled them on a diagram of vision by the exhibition and graphic designer Herbert Bayer, who taught at the influential Bauhaus art school in the early 20th century. Bayer wanted to illustrate the arcs traced by a viewer’s eye. Deschenes’s enlargement of Bayer’s diagram appears to swallow our sight. To make the two prints, she exposed chromogenic (color) paper until it reached a lustrous black. What we see, as a result, includes a ghostly reflection of ourselves.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 2014
Medium: Chromogenic prints (2)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Liz Deschenes

Artist

Liz Deschenes

Mixed Media

Liz Deschenes is an American contemporary artist and educator. Her work is situated between sculpture and image and engages with post-conceptual photography and Minimalism. Her work examines the fluidity of the medium of photography and expands on what constitutes the viewing of a photograph. Deschenes has stated that she seeks to "enable the viewer to see the inconstancy of the conditions of display, which are always at play but sometimes hard to see." Her practice is not bound to a single technology, method, process, or subject, but to the fundamental elements of photography, such as light, paper, chemistry, and time.

New York City

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