Helen Sear @ Klompching

© Helen Sear/courtesy Klompching Gallery

More work by the talented Helen Sear at Klompching Gallery!

Klompching Gallery
111 Front Street
Suite 206.
DUMBO, Brooklyn
-through June 11, 2010

Last chance for Helen Sear @ KLOMPCHING

Last chance to catch Helen Sear's beautiful montages of portraits and landscapes at KLOMPCHING GALLERY in DUMBO. The artist combines photography, drawing and digital techniques to create delicately layered images that provoke the viewer to question traditional modes of viewing photographic imagery.

INSIDE THE VIEW — HELEN SEAR
January 8 — February 27
KLOMPCHING GALLERY

111 Front Street, Suite 206

Brooklyn, NY11201

Gallery Hours: Wed — Sat, 11am — 6pm

Opening Reception Tomorrow: Helen Sear @ Klompching Gallery

"Inside The View, No. 14 & No. 20" (2006) © Helen Sear/courtesy Klompching Gallery


(via Klompching Gallery)

Klompching Gallery is pleased to announce Inside The View, the first exhibition in the United States by British artist Helen Sear. There will be a reception with the artist on January 8, from 6pm to 8pm.

Inside The View is an exceptional collection of photographs, wherein Helen Sear addresses the notion of work, labor of the hand and time in the process of image making. Sear also contributes to the long history of montage by superimposing two images — one a portrait of a woman and the other a landscape. Each image is then erased through a complex and painstaking process of digital drawing, with a lace-like network of lines based upon the patterns of sewing or hand woven lace making.

The result is a wonderful play on vision, whereby the figure and ground appear and disappear within the resulting lines of erasure. In many ways, the lines of erasure are the image; they form a veil to look at and to look through. Amongst other things, Sear is intrigued with the viewer’s habits of looking, and in this context she views the photographic medium as not fixed or entirely knowable.

“Within the multiple layers of Sear’s art we face the complex questions of work and invention. The innovative labour of image craft is central here. She does things few others do with the medium ... It is a restless process of intellectual risk, aesthetic demand and technical experiment.”—David Campany (2006).

In making these images, Sear has been inspired by the works of Helen Chadwick and Jo Spence, as well as that of the northern romantic tradition of painting. The title of the work refers to a series of collages, A L’Interieur de la Vue, by Max Ernst.

Helen Sear’s work has been published in Arts Review, Creative Camera, Art Newspaper and Art Monthly amongst others. Collections holding her work include Ernst & Young, Victoria & Albert Museum, British Council (Rome) and the Paul Wilson Collection. She lives and works in Wales (UK).

Klompching Gallery is located at 111 Front Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn and is co-owned by Debra Klomp Ching & Darren Ching.