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Indepth Arts News:
"James Welling: Photographs 1974-1999"
2000-05-06 until 2000-08-13
Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, OH,
USA United States of America
James Welling's formally and technically
exquisite photographs encompass a rich array
of subjects: domestic interiors, wintry
landscapes, trompe l'oeil abstractions, trains
and railroad yards, factories, light fixtures, and
19th-century architecture. His choices of
processes and equipment are equally diverse:
photograms, traditional gelatin silver prints,
Polaroids, and digitally processed prints;
vintage view cameras and experimental
shuttlerless ones. From the Polaroid
Photographs of the mid-1970s to the New
Abstractions of the late-1990s, he has
ventured along many paths, some more
traveled than others, rather than blindly
pursuing a single goal.
This exhibition of over 100 photographs offers
a rare opportunity to consider Welling's
achievements over the last 25 years. Keenly
aware of photographyÕs history, its early
masters and its social context, he draws on this
heritage, as well as on insights from
post-minimalist thinking, in his work. As a
result, his impressive and dramatic images
offer a timely opportunity to examine new
directions being forged within and against the
conventions of traditional photography. The
exhibition is accompanied by a 120-page
illustrated catalogue with essays by critic and
art historian Michael Fried and curator Sarah J.
Rogers. Following its presentation in Columbus,
the exhibition will travel to The Baltimore
Museum of Art and The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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