JASON SHULMAN – STILL MOTION

Posted on 2024-11-18

The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, Little Havana Project presents an exhibition of new work by the British artist Jason Shulman. Featuring a series of long- exposure photographs of critical moments of our recent history, the show marks a new chapter in the artist’s decade-long practice of multimedia experimentation. By manipulating temporality and technology, Shulman opens a new door to our perception of some of the most iconic events and images of our shared cultural world.

The project began when the London-based Shulman decided to photograph the coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi: training his camera on his television, he took a series of long-exposure photographs of selected events, freezing dreamlike, fluid, action-charged representations of what the rest of the world was experiencing as HD motion on their screens. This idea of gathering all the light present in an event led to his celebrated series ‘Photographs of Films’ where the entire running time of a movie is captured in a single image.

His new body of work takes iconic filmed moments from history as the subject for visual investigation. The ‘History Photographs’ inhabit a liminal third space between the moving and the static, opening up a new way of experiencing culturally familiar events.

Opposite – Dumbo (1941), 2023

Exhibition runs through to November 30th, 2024

Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
510 SW 8th Court,
Miami
FL 33130

www.rebeccahossack.com

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ABSTRACTED LIGHT: EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Posted on 2024-11-18

The works in this exhibition represent a variety of approaches to light abstraction, starting with the photogram process. One of the earliest forms of photography, a photogram is made by placing objects directly on chemically treated paper and exposing them to light to capture their silhouettes. Photographers revived this technique as they sought novel ways to create abstract images. The Hungarian-born artist Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, working in Germany, became one of the photogram’s fiercest advocates, writing that it enabled photographers to “sketch with light” in the same way that painters work with paintbrushes and pigment. In Paris, the American expatriate Man Ray also embraced the photogram, mistakenly claiming that he had invented the technique and naming it the “Rayograph” after himself. Through international exhibitions and photography journals, the popularity of the photogram spread far and wide.

Opposite – Vortex, 1933, Edward W. Quigley.

Exhibition runs through to November 24th, 2024

J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles
CA 90049

www.getty.edu

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