FLUX | Fall 2022: Harrison D Walker
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.
HARRISON D WALKER
Portal No. 140, 2017. Unique, Mixed Media Print, 30 x 22 inches. Edition 1 of 1. $2000. INQUIRE >
Harrison D Walker is the artist behind the large, circular forms on the first wall to the left in the space. Harrison’s Portals exhibit some of the more abstract application of photography as a medium, utilizing photosensitive chemistry in his experimental printmaking process.
The satisfaction of the repeated shape, along with the curiosity and excitement of discovery, make this particular project a perfect union between the analog and artistic mind. In the artist’s words, the Portals series is “an investigation of photographic chemistry, psychological perceptions, and ideas of duplication, mimicry, and the multiple.” Walker combines varying techniques and materials, using a disc as a stencil to maintain a visual thread through each differing trial.
Walker approaches the process with a nearly scientific methodology; the artist meticulously documents each layer of process, providing a blueprint for the next curious creator to pick up where he leaves off. Don’t let the seeming rigidity of the recipe fool you – due to the nature of some of Walker’s chosen ingredients, repeated attempts can vary widely, solidifying both the beauty and frustration of trying to capture the spontaneity of each unique concoction.
Portal No. 003, 2017. Unique, Mixed Media Print, 30 x 22 inches. Edition 2 of 3. $850. INQUIRE >
Portal No. 003, 2017. Unique, Mixed Media Print, 30 x 22 inches. Edition 3 of 3. $850. INQUIRE >
The effects of Walker’s photographic, printmaking, and drawing applications seek to elicit not only an emotional, but also a fundamentally experiential, viewing. In his meticulous manner of expression, Walker dives headlong into the unknown, making objects and images that explore the possibility for variation in texture and surface, color and form.
Walker received his MFA in Photography at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in Philadelphia, PA. He currently lives in Athens, Georgia.
