Critical Encounters - Resurrecting Photography and Print History
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Explore the photographic print processes of woodburytype and collotype with printer Barret Oliver and photographer Kristine Potter. They will share contemporary examples of these technical productions. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Process Work Intersections of Photography and Print ca. 1825 to Today, the program will include a gallery walk through led by Sarah Mirseyedi, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.
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Registration required. Space is limited.
Admission is paid day-of at a Visitor Services desk prior to the start time of the program.
This program is supported by a grant from the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Foundation.
Kristine Potter is an artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, whose work explores masculine archetypes, the American landscape, and cultural tendencies toward mythologizing the past. Her first monograph Manifest was published by TBW Books in 2018. Her second monograph Dark Waters was published by Aperture in the summer of 2023. Potter was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 and was awarded the Grand Prix Image Vevey for 2019-2020. Potter’s work is in numerous public and private collections including that of The High Museum of Art, The Georgia Museum of Art, the Swiss Camera Museum, and Foundation Vevey. Potter is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Middle Tennessee State University.
Barret Oliver is a photographer and printer based in Los Angeles. His work has been featured in gallery and museum exhibitions, publications and motion pictures. Oliver's research in woodburytype grew out of an extensive working knowledge of early photographic technology and experiments in reproducing woodbury prints. Oliver founded The ƒ/Ø Project [f-zero], a printmaking and publishing studio established to rethink the nature of the photographic object, by starting again from the beginning. The aim is to marry the technologies of photographic history with artists from the contemporary world, giving them the opportunity to expand their vocabulary by working in a wider variety of photographic printmaking techniques. Built on the model of twentieth-century printmaking studios. The ƒ/Ø Project makes collaborative work with artists making unique and editioned works.