HUNTINGTON, NY.- The Heckscher Museum of Art presents Modern Alchemy: Experiments in Photography. This exhibition is on view from December 6, 2014 through March 15, 2015.
Modern Alchemy: Experiments in Photography focuses on 20th- and 21st -century artists who have pushed the boundaries of photography in myriad ways, creating images that have a complex relationship to objective reality. Beginning with Man Ray’s portfolio Electricité, the exhibition traces 20th -century experimentation with photograms, multiple exposures, combination printing, tonal contrast, unusual perspectives, cropping, and chemical processing, often resulting in the creation of images that are abstract. Contemporary photographers have expanded the medium’s limits even further, reviving older techniques such as the camera obscura, experimenting with long and multiple exposures, darkroom processing, and camera-less photography, or exploring digital technologies. Matthew Brandt, Harry Callahan, Chris McCaw, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Abelardo Morell, Floris Neususs, Lucas Samaras, Aaron Siskind, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Maggie Taylor, Edmund Teske, and Jerry Uelsmann are among the featured artists.
ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION
Bill Armstrong • Damion Berger • Théodore Brauner • Josef Breitenbach • Marco Breuer • Dan Burkholder • Harry Callahan • Ellen Carey • Joe Constantino • Kevin Cooley • Pierre Cordier & Gundi Falk • Melissa Fleming • Adam Fuss • Robert Heinecken • Barbara Jaffe • György Kepes • Martina Lopez • Man Ray • Jerry Uelsmann • Chris McCaw • Klea McKenna • Ray K. Metzker • Laszlo Moholy-Nagy • Abelardo Morell • Floris Neusüss • Andreas Rentsch • Mariah Robertson • Alison Rossiter • Neil Scholl • Aaron Siskind • Frederick Sommer • Grete Stern • Hiroshi Sugimoto • Maggie Taylor • Edmund Teske • Raoul Ubac • Jerry Uelsmann
Also opened on December 6, 2014 is Ferdinand Richardt’s Niagara: A Study in Landscape Painting. This Permanent Collection exhibition is on view through April 1, 2015. Ferdinand Richardt’s Niagara: A Study in Landscape Painting examines Richardt’s iconic view of one of America’s most popular tourist sites within the context of American and European landscape painting.
