Halsey McKay is thrilled to present Paradise Window, Bryan Graf’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Graf continues his exploration of techniques and materials with a multi-faceted approach to photography.
His work navigates the tension between control and chance, as he deliberately upends accepted conventions of photographic representation, creating expressive works that speak to a more visceral and phenomenological experience of the world. While preparing for the exhibition Graf came across a note he scrawled on a box of darkroom paper that read:
Paradise is distracting, it’s flat, it falls apart in front of your face. It’s an idea and is legible from afar but turns to dust when you get close to it; when you reach it, there’s nothing there, nothing left but an idea, a projection, a hope for something better and perfect… paradise is bullshit.
As a photographer that makes images which are facsimiles of something, Graf finds it precarious to attempt to portray idealized notions or places. This concern leads to a hesitation to relay or display an image that is fully clear, or registered, in traditional photographic terms. The works act as windows that show shifting perspectives, from one picture to the next. Graf develops permeable images, more akin to how memories are recalled than how direct experience is perceived in a moment.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an offsite presentation of Reflected Projections Projecting Reflections, a modular installation composed of a slide projector, mirrors and colorful transparency slides of screen material used to make tiny geometric abstractions. These images are then amplified via the slide projector mounted to one wall and a corresponding grid of mirrors on the wall opposite the projector – reflecting back images to the source of their projection.
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