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gary
duehr
photography Gary
Duehr d e t a i
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In these photographs of details of paintings in museums, I focus on a swatch of cloth, a bare shoulder, a shadowy background. I think of these elements, lifted from their original context, as having a dialog with each other. What are they saying? Maybe something about an indistinct light, a crackled texture. Maybe they are asking the viewer to help fill in the gaps. From these pieces, a kind of timeless, anonymous, ultimate portrait or interior is assembled. And like the details in art books, that blow up a small area for closer inspection, these samples force attention to what may be overlooked. Rather than the intensity of an expression or the sweep of a historical scene, "Details" examines the turn of a collar or a patch of wall. Each image is a pigment print on watercolor paper, 8" x 8", varnished and floated in a gold-edged frame.
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