Lot 6
ELLEN CAREY(B. 1952)Caesura, 2016
13 – 27 February 2025, 17:00 PST
Online, Los AngelesUS$5,000 - US$7,000
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ELLEN CAREY (B. 1952)
Caesura, 2016
signed
color photogram
24 x 20 in.
70 x 50.8 cm.
signed
color photogram
24 x 20 in.
70 x 50.8 cm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Courtesy of JHB Gallery
Ellen Carey is a rebellious alchemist, a contemporary artist that blends 19th century photographic practice, with 20th century innovations, to create 21st century artworks. Carey continually develops camera and camera-less techniques in the pursuit of the abstract. The work is born from discovery and risk. Earlier works are recognizable as images of a person—Carey herself—but with applications of paint and collage they soon slip into a geometric kaleidoscope of the unknown. Starting with Polaroid 20x24, from the 1990s onwards, Carey's works are not representations of something else, like a boat, tree or a person. The images are not signs to be read. Carey's works are perfect presentations of themselves. We clearly see the actual subject in any photograph – the imprint of light.