GAIL PINE
The Black Pictures
Extended to September 26, 2010
5 x 7 in. prints are $750 each.
4 x 4 in. prints are $650 each.
*price increases by $100 for each subsequent no. in edition.
Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token.
- Edgar Allen Poe
Our August show features twenty gelatin silver photographs by Santa Barbara artist, Gail Pine. Borrowing their titles from the poetry of Poe & their mercurial, reductive substance from the missing stories of lost snapshots, her pieces compel us to peer into the darkness of their surface & ponder several questions. Just what type of image is this? Is it antique or contemporary? What do the ghostly figures & luminescent landscapes have to tell us about daily fears & nightly dreams? "While I initially started with death lying thick within my brain," Pine notes, "after working on The Black Pictures for the better part of a year, I came to realize that I was actually rebirthing these lost snapshots, creating new allegories, a kind of schism of sorts. Incestuous by their very nature, and reborn in the complete blackness of a darkroom, these snapshots have given birth to new, opposite variations of themselves."
© 2010
Gail Pine
ampersand vintage
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