January Issue 2002
Halsey Gallery in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Maggie Taylor & Jerry N. Uelsmann
The William Halsey Gallery at the College of
Charleston's School of the Arts in Charleston, SC, will host an
exhibition entitled Points of Intervention, featuring the
manipulated photographs of Maggie Taylor and Jerry N. Uelsmann
from Jan.10 - Feb. 16, 2002.
Each of these internationally acclaimed artists intervene at a
different point in the photographic process to produce their enigmatic
images. Taylor will lecture about her work on Jan.10 at 4pm in
the gallery. She will conduct a demonstration of her digital imaging
techniques in the gallery at 2pm on Jan. 11. Uelsmann will speak
about his photography also on Jan. 11 at 4pm in room 309 of the
Simons Center.
Uelsmann's
photographs are as immediately recognizable as they are visually
potent. He has become one of the most successful photographic
artists of the last thirty years and remains a pioneer within
the field. Uelsmann's work has been exhibited in over 100 solo
exhibitions and his photographs are in the permanent collections
of many major museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum
of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Chicago Art
Institute, the International Museum of Photography at the George
Eastman House, the National Museum of American Art in Washington,
and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Utilizing only traditional darkroom technique. (and up to eight
enlargers), Uelsmann manipulates and combines familiar images
and landscapes into unfamiliar creations that conjure up notions
of surrealism, mysticism and even Jungian archetypes. It has been
said of his work, "The visually plausible but philosophically
impossible situations presented in Jerry Uelsmann's photographs
contradict the essential information we have come to expect from
photographs. By subverting the currency of literal fact, Uelsmann
releases us from the constraints of photography's mimetic function.
No longer burdened by representation, we naturally return to our
internal, nonlinear faculties of thought and feeling to savor
the Inexpressible resonance of his... visions."
Maggie Taylor
From a technological standpoint the work of Maggie Taylor could not be more different from that of Uelsmann. For the past five years she has been using a flatbed scanner instead of a traditional camera to record and interpret collected objects, text and images. These are combined through digital manipulations, as well as being physically constructed on the scanner. The resulting inscrutable creations of Taylor have a distinct resonance with the photographs of Uelsmann. Also widely exhibited and collected, Taylor's work is beginning to gain national and international acclaim. When describing her unique tableaux Taylor suggests, "the images work on two levels: they are about these specific objects, yet they also invite reverie or recollections. I like to think that the objects are obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious."
The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Visual Arts Club at the College of Charleston.
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