7.12.12

C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore is exhibiting a wonderful collection of contemporary photography through January 19.  

I've been looking for examples of others who do something similar to my "found abstraction."  There do not seem to be many.  One of the C. Grimaldis staff suggested photographers are reluctant to confuse photography and painting - even abstract expressionism - given the difficulty photography has had establishing itself as a fine art equivalent to painting.

Cy Twombley applied a painterly eye to many of his photographs.  His later works seem especially open to blurring the line (sometimes quite literally) between a captured image or a created composition. (A survey of Twombley's photographs are currently on exhibit at Gagosian Gallery in New York.)

Cy Twombly Sunset, Gaeta 2009
 Dryprint on cardboard 43.1 x 27.9 cm

At C. Grimaldis there are three photographers who - while not quite meeting my own definition of found abstraction - demonstrate an occasional inclination to something similar.  One piece by Neil Meyerhoff features a contained cast of light against a wall.  But this is a significant departure from other works by Meyerhoff

Leland Rice has some wonderful close-ups of the Berlin wall (right image from the poster below).  But my current definition of found abstraction excludes graffiti and other forms with aesthetic intention.


Conforming most closely to my concept is probably Bernd Radtke's EN PASSANT project (left image on the poster above and the piece below).  What I see small, he sees large.  But the aesthetic outcome is comparable.

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