Pariset, Steciw, Wilson
Overview
Presented at toomer labzda gallery in New York, this exhibition brought together the work of three emerging women artists—Aude Pariset, Kate Steciw, and Letha Wilson—whose radically different methodologies and disparate materials challenge traditional definitions of photography. Departing from two-dimensional imagery, each artist employs transformational, spatial processes to impart materiality onto the immaterial, creating new sculptural relationships and pushing photographic forms outside the boundaries of the frame.
Project Context & Curatorial Role
As Curator, I developed the exhibition concept, artist selections, and gallery installation, exploring the untapped sculptural potential of digital and analog photographic imagery at the intersection of material culture, consumerism, and spatial intervention.
Aude Pariset: Exploring computer-generated imagery printed onto organic surfaces, Pariset presented FX Tridanca—molding rice paper into large seashells printed with appropriated imagery from an all-male new media collective—and Untitled (Atlas moth/Chob the), utilizing a subtractive drawing process to tag inkjet prints with clear fixative and water. Her work probes the paradox of digital brushstrokes and graffiti gestures as both personal expressions and endlessly repeatable forms.
Kate Steciw: Steciw’s multimedia photographic and sculptural constructions reframe internet-sourced stock imagery, commercial products, and domestic materials into dynamic 3D and 4D objects. Responding to the overabundance of consumer culture, her humorous, abstract assemblages distort familiar commodities to give them new, uncanny significance.
Letha Wilson: Beginning with traditional analog photographs of the American landscape, Wilson cuts, splices, and encases ephemeral images within heavy layers of poured concrete. The natural stratification of the concrete interacts with the depicted physical qualities of the landscape, breaking and folding two-dimensional prints into substantial three-dimensional sculptures that create striking visual dissonance.
Role: Curator
Date: January 8—February 26, 2012
Location: toomer labzda gallery, New York, NY
Artists: Aude Pariset, Kate Steciw, Letha Wilson
