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SUMMARY:Ellen Carey: Struck By Light
DESCRIPTION:Ellen Carey: Struck By Light \nThursday\, July 20\, 2023 —  Sunday\, January 28\, 2024 \n\n\n\n\n\nPart One: On view starting June 24 in the Helen T. and Philip B. Stanley Gallery \nPart Two: Opens July 20 in the Maximilian E. and Marion O. Hoffman Foundation Gallery \nThis two-part exhibition presents three decades of work by acclaimed Hartford-based artist Ellen Carey. \nSince the early 1990s\, artist Ellen Carey (b. 1952) has created experimental and abstract works that defy photographic conventions. Struck by Light represents the largest survey of Carey’s innovative photo-objects and lens-based artworks. Spanning 30 years of her prolific career\, the exhibition includes examples of her Photography Degree Zero (1996–2023) practice of Polaroid 20 X 24 lens-based images—including Pulls and Rollbacks—as well as her Struck by Light (1992–2023) series of camera-less photograms—Dings and Shadows—inspired by the earliest examples of paper photography. Collectively\, the works trace Carey’s enormous contributions to the field of photography through her pioneering explorations of light\, color\, and shadow\, and are drawn from the collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art and the artist. \nEllen Carey received her BFA from KCAI-Kansas City Art Institute (1971-1975) and her MFA (1976-1978) from SUNY@Buffalo (now UB). She is Associate Professor of Photography (1983-2023) Hartford Art School (HAS)-University of Hartford. \nA recent article written by Chris Wiley for The New Yorker (February 2023) sees the arc of her career as well as the solo exhibition Light Struck at Fox Talbot Museum (2023-2024)\, the home of photography in Lacock (England). \n  \nEllen Carey’s Artist Statement: \nPhotography changed our world. Now universal\, a photograph links a global humanity with our picture culture from each image to hundreds\, millions\, billions seen every day; we are visual. \nA Picture is a Poem without Words – Horace \nStruck by light is a phrase that sparks imagination\, tells of inspiration\, a metaphor for discovery\, to conceive something anew\, a rare feeling\, a brainstorm … Eureka! … says it all. Photography\, discovered in the 19th century\, is Greek – phōs for light\, graphis for drawing – light drawing. \nLight’s immateriality challenges its ‘camera operators’ today. Analog versus digital technologies double these challenges. Struck by light has multiple meanings for my experimental and lens-based works. It names my creative practice in photogram\, while Photography Degree Zero sees my Polaroid 20 X 24 works. Light\, wherever/whenever it strikes\, is to be free. \nStruck by Light is different in meaning for photographers. When light-sensitive paper/film is exposed to/struck by light\, if intentional\, a negative/film or image/paper is made; however\, if light strikes the paper/film\, accidentally it is “fogged” – darkened – light travels. Photographers are often called light travelers; I see my work in this context\, giving content to it. \nAll journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware – Martin Buber \nPhotographers use light in all different ways – silhouette\, shadow\, outline\, reflection; however\, I often cannot see light while I work [in the darkroom]\, leading me to wonder what the light does on its own. What are light’s first traces? \nLight finds my Catholic birth name – Celtic\, Gaelic\, Irish – a prescient gift from my parents; Ellen means light or bringer of light. Color is universal\, an artist’s universe\, in that universe is photography’s planet\, where light and color overlap and meet; it is called photographic color theory – RGBYMC – a palette that conceptually underscores my twin practices. \nStruck by Light is the DNA of my dual artistic endeavors\, a double helix with light and color\, photography within process\, that combines destiny and fate. When light becomes visible the photo-object speaks. My photographs say craquelure\, parabola\, hue\, abstract\, process\, minimal\, photogram\, light\, beauty\, color\, wonder\, invention\, innovation. \n 
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LOCATION:New Britain Museum of American Art\, 56 Lexington Street\, New Britain\, CT\, 06052\, United States
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