As part of our move to Traverse City, we are going to feature an area or event in northern Michigan on the blog every other Monday. We love to get “out and about” so you will definitely find us at any of the areas/events posted here. Our first post is photography-related and can be found right here in Traverse City at the Dennos Museum! This exhibit runs through June 13th but we highly recommend visiting as soon as possible. Once the sun comes out the the warm weather hits the air, you will want to be outside as much as possible! : ) We found out about this event at the Traverse City Convention and Visitors Bureau. A great resource for planning your trip “up north”.
Kim Kauffman – Beyond the Lens – April 10 through June 13, 2010 Location: Dennos Museum Center Website: www.dennosmuseum.orgKim Kauffman – Beyond the Lens: Cameraless Photo-Collage – Cameraless images are as old as photography itself, begun in the mid-1800s with Henry Fox Talbot’s photogenic drawings and Anna Atkin’s studies of mosses and algae. The form has continued outside the mainstream of photography to the present day. Kim Kauffman embraces this tradition using modern tools and techniques. For the past eleven years Kauffman has combined cameraless recording of her subjects and photo-collage. With this process a new surreal visual world based upon an exploration of light, color, texture and scale emerges in these superbly sharp and sensuously soft images.
This exhibition combines three ongoing bodies of work: Florilegium, Collaborations and Illumitones. Their common thread is Kauffman’s singular vision that explores abstraction of the subject. Florilegium combines flowers, leaves, seedpods collected from gardens. Many are past their prime — the stages of growth and decay depicted in these images re-create life’s rhythms and dramas. Collaborations builds from Florilegium combining natural and synthetic elements to examine the forms that nature repeats across all things and how we humans mimic these forms in our designs. Illumitones takes abstraction further as the subject becomes a vehicle for organic and geometric studies of light and shadow, line and form — distilling the intrinsic elements of the human endeavor of making art.
by Darrin Wassom
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