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 SPLASH! @ Klompching

Swing over to Dumbo and catch the last days of Klompching's summer show, SPLASH! Featuring works by: Tessa Bunney, Elaine Duigenan, Cornelia Hediger, Paula McCartney, Lisa M. Robinson and more.

Klompching
111 Front Street
Suite 206
Brooklyn, NY 11201

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.

Opening tonight: Cornelia Hediger

Cornelia Hediger's Doppleganger series opens tonight at Klompching Gallery.

Opening Reception September 10, 6-8pm
September 10-October 31, 2008
111 Front St. Suite 206
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Elaine Duigenan & Susan Bright: In Conversation

IN-CONVERSATION: JULY 11, 7pm — 7:45pm

UK photographer Elaine Duigenan will discuss the exhibition, 'Intimate Archaeology, with Susan Bright.

Susan Bright is a freelance curator and writer. Recent curatorial projects include: Something out of Nothing, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, How We Are: Photographing Britain (co-curated with Professor Val Williams), Tate Britain, London, Face of Fashion: Corinne Day, Mert & Marcus, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi & Mario Sorrenti, National Portrait Gallery, London and 1+1=3: Collaboration in Contemporary British Portraiture, Fremantle Arts Center, Western Australia and Australian Center of Photography, Sydney. She is the author of Art Photography Now (2005), published by Thames & Hudson. Previously she was Assistant Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, Curator of the Association of Photographrs and Acting Director for the MA Photography (Historic and Contemporary) at Sotheby's Institute, London. Susan Bright now lives and works in New York.

Debra Klomp Ching

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

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