Photography

LUMINOUS

O’Born Contemporary presents the work of Lou Raizin, Susan Burnstine, Michael Mazzeo, and Curtis Wehrfritz in the winter exhibition Luminous.

Jan 16th - Feb 27th 2010
 
Exhibition Reception:
Saturday, January 16th, 2010, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Join us for Luminous, an exhibition of glorious photographs that exemplify both the sublime hopes of a new year and the contemplation of deep, dark spells cast upon us by winter. The artists in Luminous use archaic and contemporary processes alike to make images that glow from within a darkness, burning embers in the gloom of night. Curtis Wehrfritz’ rare 8X10 Daguerrotypes nudge at epic narratives that linger deep in the Canadian psyche, Susan Burnstine uses handmade pinhole cameras to capture fragments of distorted realities visited upon her when sleeping, Lou Raizin’s digital photographs record a stark landscape in which nature itself subsumes colour, Michael Mazzeo’s delicate ambrotype portraits are beauty, personified. Together their works give breath and life to “the listener, who listens in the snow... beholds Nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is”*.
 
* The Snow Man

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
 
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
 
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
 
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
 
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
 
(Wallace Stevens, 1921)
 
 
P. Elaine Sharpe
 
Curator

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