Lorna Bieber
For over twenty years, artist Lorna Bieber (American, b. 1949) has made the world of reproduced photographic images the subject of her work. Trained as a painter, Bieber became interested in the photographic image as subject while working in the art department and then as a photo editor for large-circulation magazines in the late 1980s. She subsequently developed a working method that begins with stock photographic images, which she then photocopies, enlarges, reduces, paints on and/or draws on, variously repeating or combining these actions—via manual procedures—until the images become thoroughly her own. In her earliest works of this type, she photographed the results and presented them as large-scale gelatin silver prints of single images or as grids of 11x14-inch gelatin silver prints that form monumental panels. Her latest work consists of the photocopies themselves mounted onto panels and arranged into enormous grids.
This exhibition includes her newest piece, Tapestry (2015), the culmination of two years’ work, along with seven other works dating from 1999 to 2013. The elements of her compositions stand for the generic category to which they belong; they are each genus rather than species. Her work implies that these “image genera” derive from the photographic universe and saturate our mental landscape. The large scale and unique appearance of Bieber’s work promise an exhibition with dramatic impact
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| Quick Facts | |
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| Participation Fee | $10,000 + Pro-rated shipping and Insurance |
| Booking Period | 12 Weeks |
| Contents | 8 works, gelatin silver, electrostatic, and inkjet on canvas prints |
| Size | 120 linear feet (approx) |