FLUX | Fall 2022: Linda Connor
flux | FALL 2022
September 2 – October 22, 2022
Flux is an ongoing spotlight of works in Candela’s gallery inventory showcasing the breadth of the photographic medium and our love for process. Join us over the course of the next month as we highlight this season’s featured artists: Harrison D Walker, Linda Connor, Alyssa Salomon, and Willie Anne Wright.
A row of vertical, sometimes abstracted, monochromatic landscapes occupies the far left corner of the back gallery room. These visual studies of texture and tone are the work of artist Linda Connor, who has spent decades being drawn to subjects relating to a higher power: the things which drive the awe and curiosity of humankind, from sacred garments to celestial bodies. Her works often concern the connection between our relationship to both the divine and the natural world.
#'s 049 / 050, from the series, Himalayas. Archival Pigment Print, 33.25 x 24 inches. Artist Proof. $3000. INQUIRE >
Katas and Cloths, Ladakh, India, 2005. Archival Print on Silk, 45 x 36 inch Image on 60 x 40 inch Silk.
Edition of 5. INQUIRE >
#090, from the series, Himalayas. Archival Pigment Print, 30 x 24 inches. Artist Proof. $3000. INQUIRE >
November 26, 1945, Andromeda, 1996. Gold Toned Printing Out Paper from Original Glass Plate Negative, 12 x 10 inches. Open Edition. INQUIRE >
These works in particular are a document of the Himalayan mountain range, photographed by Connor on a large format camera. The treatment of the resulting digital pigment prints seamlessly joins the variety of processes and presentations used by the artist in her other series, including images made on silk and printing-out-paper.
#046, from the series, Himalayas. Archival Pigment Print, 30 x 24 inches. Artist Proof. $3000. INQUIRE >
Linda Connor photographing the Himalayas with an 4x5 view camera.
In the Himalayas series, Connor crafts compositions of the sacred mountains that are both quiet and remarkable, revering the site as a creator and nurturer while challenging the traditions of male-dominated landscape photography.
Linda Connor is a founding president of the bay area nonprofit organization, PhotoAlliance, dedicated to the understanding, appreciation and creation of contemporary photography. Connor has received, among other awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts grants, and her work is collected widely, including at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
