NEW YORK, NY.- Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York presents Deep Shade, an exhibition of photographs by 2016 Workspace Resident Lisa Fairstein.

For the series Deep Shade, Lisa Fairstein finds influence in the visual shorthand of web-based photos. Drawn to images made for online consumption, she seeks out isolated poetic fragments worthy of deeper consideration. A mysterious yellow liquid that forms a stark contour on the dark ground, or awkwardly framed limbs gesturing ambiguously - her aim is to heighten the charged and consequential elements of these fractured moments.

Fairstein’s creative process involves sourcing and re-staging these instances, often using printed backgrounds, props and hired models. Her approach gives her photographs an uncanny sense of construction, an element that makes visible the tension between consumption and critique. By capturing the images in higher resolution, and presenting them at a size and speed made for contemplation, she creates slow photographs motivated by accelerated looking.

The title, “Deep Shade,” alludes jokingly to Fairstein’s use of shadow and color, and tonally to an irreverence she finds to be an important component of web imagery. This same wry spirit inhabits much of her work, amplifying the self-awareness and complicity in her relationship to contemporary image culture.

Lisa Fairstein has exhibited at Pioneer Works, NY; the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, PA; the Wassaic Project, NY; Fresh Window Gallery, NY; Signal Gallery, NY; the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, PA ; {TEMP} Art Space in collaboration with NURTUREart, NY; and at Vox Populi, PA. She has been awarded residencies by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Wassaic Project, and Pioneer Works. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts. Lisa lives and works in New York City.