The New Britain Museum of American Art announces Ellen Carey: Stuck by Light exhibit
The New Britain Museum of American Art presents Ellen Carey’s solo exhibition, Struck by Light, showcasing her cutting-edge photography from June 23, 2023, to January 28, 2024.
Ellen Carey (b. 1952), since the 1990s, has created experimental and abstract works that expand the boundaries of what photography is. Struck by Light, the largest survey of Carey’s innovative photo-objects and lens-based artworks, highlights her 30 years in the medium.
Ellen Carey names her twin umbrella concepts, Photography Degree Zero (1996-2023), for her Polaroid 20 X 24, lens-based pictures — Pulls and Rollbacks — while Struck by Light (1988-2023), names her series of camera-less photograms Dings & Shadows that continue that legacy. Collectively these visual, unique pictures ask, what is this a picture of? and how is this picture made?, drawing parallels with the arc of photography from the dawn of the medium in the 19th century to now with her explorations of light, color, shadow.
The New Yorker article, “An Outlier to the Pictures Generation Gets Her Due”(February 2023), written by Chris Wiley, sees the arc of Ellen Carey’s career, as does the newly opened solo exhibition, Light Struck, at the Fox Talbot Museum (2023-2024), home of photography in Lacock, England.
Ellen Carey received her BFA from KCAI-Kansas City Art Institute (1975) and her MFA (1978) from SUNY@Buffalo (now UB). She is Associate Professor of Photography, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford.
Part One: On view starting June 23 in the Helen T. and Philip B. Stanley Gallery
Part Two: Opens July 20 in the Maximilian E. and Marion O. Hoffman Foundation Gallery
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