1 Dec 2007 to 5 Jan 2008
Gallery Hours:
Tues.- Fri., 10am -5:30pm; Sat., 11am -5:30pm
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue, Building B3
CA90404
Los Angeles, CA
Santa Monica
California
North America
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Jenny Okun’s seventh solo exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery will consist of 175 large-scale (30x40”) archival pigment prints installed in a salon style grid covering the main gallery’s walls from the floors to the top of the walls. For the past 20 years, Okun has been recognized for her multiply exposed photographic abstractions of architecture. Working with a medium format camera, the artist interpreted the forms of buildings by winding the film through the camera in small increments between exposures, thus producing one long negative of several overlapping images. According to the NEW YORK TIMES, Okun’s process reveals, “the very soul of the buildings she photographs.” More recently, with the development of digital technologies, Okun has explored new ways of layering her images as well as broadening her focus, creating complex montages on a broad range of subjects.
Concurrently, the gallery will present its ninth solo exhibition of the work of John Huggins. Known for his work in the Polaroid transfer process (the technique of transferring the emulsion from a Polaroid to another piece of paper), Huggins has re-examined a selection of his earlier transfers and enlarged them up to a 30x40” size in the archival pigment process. These enlargements enhance the already grainy images of the original 4x5” transfers and the fibrous texture of the paper that they are printed on. The images of relatively tiny skiers and surfers, set in large, monochromatic minimalist fields of slopes and waves, convey a Zen simplicity of man in the context of nature.
