Blue Hour Artist Feature: Em White
BLUE HOUR
November 4 – December 21, 2022
Candela Gallery presents Blue Hour, a group exhibition inspired by seasonal depression, featuring photographic works by Granville Carroll, Peter Cochrane, Heather Evans Smith, Dylan Hausthor, Galina Kurlat, Raymond Thompson Jr, and Em White.
EM WHITE
Em White, Glittering Plane, 2021. Tintype (Grid), 21.5 x 30.5 inches; 26.5 x 36 inches, Framed. Unique. SHOP PIECE >
In the back room of Blue Hour hangs a single framed grid piece made of 18 individual 5x7 tintypes. Each floating object depicts soft shimmering shapes on shades of black. These images of light on water are the work of Richmond, Virginia photographer, Em White.
Is it radical to unironically make art about beauty with no other agenda; to simply seek to transcribe a feeling of transcendence one can experience while watching sunlight shimmer on the surface of water? Does it have to be about more?
This grid of tintypes serves as a study in capturing the “glitter” produced when light bounces around on the surface of rippling water. These images favor the more poetic nature of the human eye perceiving the effects of light over explicit documentation, creating a more sentimental document.
Em White, Pony Pasture, 2021. Archival Pigment Print, 34 x 42 inches, Framed. Edition 3 of 3. SHOP PIECE >
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Em White (b. 1990, Bremo Bluff, VA) is an artist known for utilizing historic photographic processes to reframe the contemporary landscape, addressing cultural narratives relating to nature, connection and identity. Taking her mobile darkroom along backroads, highways and alleys, she frames urban edens, rural sprawl and the blur in between. She is building an archive of perception— attempting to fix emotional responses to the modern natural world. Documenting physical, spiritual and environmental shapes, her practice is not confined by the processes she utilizes, but rather they serve as a means of accessing the space between truth and fiction. Her works vary from original tintypes to large-scale darkroom prints, seeking to make a living image by any means necessary.
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