Community Corner
Art Exhibition - Extended Realities
Unlimited
possibilities of photographic images explored
in Rowan exhibit
GLASSBORO, NJ – Showcasing
an expanded framework for photographic images, Rowan University Art Gallery presents the
work of nationally-recognized artists who create unique perspectives using
montage techniques. The exhibit runs from October 14 to November 16, 2013. A public
reception is Thursday, October 17 from 5:30 – 7:00 pm.
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Curated by Stephen
Perloff, editor of Photo Review magazine,
“Extended Realities: The Language of Photomontage” includes approximately 40
images representing work by modern photomontage pioneers Jerry Uelsmann and
Duane Michals, and contemporary artists from Maggie Taylor and Joe Mills to
Fran Forman and Frank Rodick. Paul Cava, Francesca Danieli, Catherine Jansen
and Dominic Rouse are also featured.
“From its earliest years, photographers have sought to overcome the limitations
of making images from a single exposure, to adapt the picture-making strategies
of printmaking, drawing, and painting, and to claim an equal place for
photography among the fine arts,” Perloff notes.
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Photomontage - the
combining of two or more photographic images into one - has been one strategy
for achieving this goal. It was used in the 19th century by such practitioners
as Oscar Gustave Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson, and was popular in the
early 20th century among the Dadaists and Surrealists as well as Russian
Constructivist artists and Modernist photographers. In the latter part of the
20th century, photomontage was revived by a number of photographers, most
notably by Uelsmann, and used by Michals as one of several modes for extending
the photograph beyond a single image in black-and-white rectangle. More
recently, contemporary artists have employed the technique for everything from
documentary image-making and whimsical constructions of reality to modern-day surrealism
and explorations of personal history.
