Chop Shop
March 2 - April 22, 2017
Nadine Boughton, Venus Rising
Candela Gallery is pleased to announce CHOP SHOP, an exhibition exploring the work of seven artists, who are transforming images through various processes of manipulation. Featured artists are: Nadine Boughton, Tom Chambers, Blythe King, Peter Brown Leighton, Lissa Rivera, Ayumi Tanaka, and Maggie Taylor.
Though each of the photographic works in this exhibition have been altered through digital manipulation, the tools of collage, illustration, deconstruction, redaction, surrealism are used in different measures by the exhibiting artists. By chiseling the foundation of their imagery, new perspectives are presented, as meaning shifts away from the real, slipping through different eras and otherworldly narratives.
Since its invention, the camera has been considered a truth telling instrument. But all along, there have been subversive applications, when depictions of the real have been pushed to suit the needs of the maker. So, information became less concrete and far more subjective and photography more mutable. Each of these artists, have uniquely embraced fabrication and the whole cloth creation of ideas, shaping reality by their own designs.
Nadine Boughton, At Home, 2013. Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 15 inches.
Nadine Boughton, Breaking Ground, 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 15 inches.
Nadine Boughton, Executive Placesetting, 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 15 inches.
Nadine Boughton, Girdle Dance, 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 15 inches.
Nadine Boughton, Rhapsody in Blue, 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 15 inches.
Nadine Boughton, Venus Rising, 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 15 x 15 inches.
Tom Chambers, Day Breakers, 2013. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 20 inches.
Tom Chambers, Edge of a Dream, 2013. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 20 inches.
Tom Chambers, Glass Flower, 2010. Archival Pigment Print, 14 x 14 inches.
Tom Chambers, Pennants Over Pienza, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 20 inches.
Tom Chambers, Spring’s Landfall, 2006. Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 20 inches.
Blythe King, Amaranthine, 2016 Image Transfer, Collage, and 23k Gold Leaf, 24 x 20 inches.
Blythe King, Better Safe Than Sorry, 2016. Image Transfer, Collage, and 23k Gold Leaf, 21 x 17 inches.
Blythe King, On Guard, 2016. Image Transfer, Collage, and 23k Gold Leaf, 22 x 19 inches.
Blythe King, Tough Luck, 2016. Image Transfer, Collage, and 23k Gold Leaf, 20 x 16 inches.
Blythe King, A Good Match, 2016. Image Transfer, Collage, and 23k Gold Leaf, 20 x 15 inches.
Blythe King, X-Ray Vision, 2016. Image Transfer, Collage, and 23k Gold Leaf, 20 x 16 inches.
Peter Brown Leighton, Uncle Bob and Baby, 2014. Archival Pigment Ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 10 x 7.25 inches.
Peter Brown Leighton, Man Lives Through Plutonium Blast, 2014. Archival Pigment Ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 10 x 7 inches.
Peter Brown Leighton, A Message to All of Humanity, 2015. Archival Pigment Ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 10 x 6.5 inches.
Peter Brown Leighton, Giant Python, 2015. Archival Pigment Ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 10 x 6.5 inches.
Peter Brown Leighton, The Best Medicine, 2016. Archival Pigment Ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 8.5 x 8.5 inches.
Peter Brown Leighton, The Search for Truth, 2014. Archival Pigment Ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 8.5 x 8.5 inches.
Peter Brown Leighton, Signals from Space, 2015. Archival Pigment Ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 10 x 7.4 inches.
Peter Brown Leighton, The End is Near, 2016. Archival Pigment Ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 10 x 7 inches.
Peter Brown Leighton, Heard ‘Round the World, 2015. Archival Pigment Ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 10 x 6.5 inches.
Peter Brown Leighton, Where the Answers Are, 2016. Archival Pigment Ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 10 x 7 inches.
Lissa Rivera, San Jose, California, 2015. Archival Pigment Print, 11 x 10 inches.
Lissa Rivera, Altoona, Pennsylvania, 2015. Archival Pigment Print, 33 x 24 inches.
Lissa Rivera, Edwardsville, Illinois, 2015. Archival Pigment Print, 40 x 30 inches.
Lissa Rivera, Middletown, Connecticut, 2015. Archival Pigment Print, 11 x 10 inches.
Lissa Rivera, Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, 2015. Archival Pigment Print, 11 x 10 inches.
Ayumi Tanaka, Birds, 2013. Silver Gelatin Print, 16 x 20 inches.
Ayumi Tanaka, End of the world, 2011. Silver Gelatin Print, 8 x 10 inches.
Ayumi Tanaka, I still like you, 2011. Silver Gelatin Print, 8 x 10 inches.
Ayumi Tanaka, My Secret Garden, 2012. Silver Gelatin Print, 8 x 10 inches.
Ayumi Tanaka, Picnic, 2013. Silver Gelatin Print, 16 x 20 inches.
Ayumi Tanaka, Sakura, 2013. Silver Gelatin Print, 16 x 20 inches.
Ayumi Tanaka, Slope and the sparkle bubbles, 2014. Silver Gelatin Print, 16 x 20 inches.
Ayumi Tanaka, The nest, 2015. Silver Gelatin Print, 16 x 20 inches.
Ayumi Tanaka, The Path, 2014. Silver Gelatin Print, 16 x 20 inches.
Maggie Taylor, Sketchy characters, 2009. Inkjet Print, 22 x 22 inches.
Maggie Taylor, Beware the Jabberwock, 2016. Inkjet Print, 22 x 22 inches.
Maggie Taylor, What remains?, 2016. Inkjet Print, 22 x 22 inches.