Chemigramists Meet in New York City
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Chemigrams:
Nolan Preece
May 10, 2014 - August 10, 2014 (Art Bite talk: Friday, May 16, 12:00 noon; Opening reception: Thursday, June 5, 5:00 - 7:00 pm)
Contemporary Gallery
Nolan Preece, a photographer for over forty years, has devoted his work to understanding and mastering the challenging techniques of early photography and conceiving of new photo-based processes at the same time. In the late 1970s and early 80s, his fondness for experimental photography led him to originate a photographic abstraction process that employed chemical masking techniques and staining in conjunction with a printed image. Preece called his resulting prints “chemograms,” but after recently engaging with a group of artists using similar processes—most notably Pierre Cordier of Brussels, Belgium—Preece has taken to using the term “chemigram” to describe his prints. This exhibition features Preece’s chemigrams produced over the past three decades. Preece served as galleries curator and art professor at Truckee Meadows Community College for eleven years before retiring in 2010. He is also known for his landscape portfolios of the United States and the West, as well as his Great Basin wall series that are now documents of a changing environment. Preece’s photographs are in the collections of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah; the Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City; the Nevada Museum of Art; and most recently, the Southern Graphics Council Archives in Mississippi.
Nolan Preece at the Nevada Museum of Art
Nolan Preece, Big Oil Finds Its Page in Time, 2012. Chemigram hybrid, 21 x 16.5 inches.
Chemigramists from left to right: Matt Higgins (Australia); Eva Nikolova (NYC); Paul Kleinman (NYC); Gundi Falk (Brussels); Douglas Collins (NYC); Pierre Cordier (Brussels); Jett Sarachek (Allentown, PA); Nolan Preece (Reno, NV); Franco Mariani (NYC); Norm Sarachek (Allentown, PA); Richard Turnbull (NYC).
Photo by Nolan Preece
Chemigramists met in New York City to exchange ideas, techniques and philosophies from May 30 till June 2, 2013. Facilitated by the Manhattan Graphics Center, the meeting was centered around famed inventor of the chemigram, Pierre Cordier, who is showing work at the Von Lintel Gallery in Chelsey. Cordier is from Brussels, Belgium. Other chemigram artists came from as far away as Australia and Nevada. Aside from Cordier’s exhibition opening reception, artists dined together at Tony de Napoli’s near Times Square and took in some late night jazz entertainment at Birdland. The meeting was concluded with presentations by each artist at the Manhattan Graphics Center the evening of June 2.
Work by all these artists may be seen at: http://nonfigurativephoto.blogspot.com/
Nolan Preece Selected for Silvershotz International Folios 2012
Entire Folios 2012 Free Download: http://www.silvershotz.com/index.php?act=folio2012
