CHRIS ENGMAN – PROSPECT AND REFUGE
2016-11-28In his exhibition Prospect and Refuge, Chris Engman continues his investigations into the medium of photography. He also returns to his roots with the use of imagery from nature, often combining this with architectural imagery to bring the outdoors in and the indoors out. Natural light is combined with artificial light, geometry is combined with wilderness, and, as always in Engman’s work, the relationship between illusion and materiality is explored. In the process this work considers and questions notions of habitation, landscape, and the natural environment.
Engman’s process entails selecting a site in nature–often during a hiking or camping trip–and carefully documenting it from a single perspective over multiple visits. Upon his return to his studio in the city, he prints the images and uses them to line the surfaces of different interior spaces, “collaging” multiple prints onto walls, ceilings, floors, and even furniture and objects in his studio and the living and dining room of his own home–in effect, recreating the site in an indoor location and thereby bringing the wilderness inside. Other images within this exhibition were shot entirely outdoors.
Opposite – Refuge, 2016
Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2016
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
2685 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles
CA 90034
