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Liz Liguori and Jessie Mann
Friday, November 06 - 9:00AM to 9:55AM
Clemson One Building
Clement Greenburg outlines the hallmarks of abstract expressionism as “large and conspicuous rhythms, broken color, uneven saturations, exhibited finger marks, masses that blot and fuse”, the Electromagnetogram series is an attempt to recreate these elements but with photographic processes rather than paint. It is a rediscovery of the elements of photography as they can be employed toward an abstract expressionist end. This work was inspired by Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s abstractions (1957-1972). It was with these images that photography was reborn as an abstract medium. These electromagnetograms use some of the same methods Meatyard introduced and expand on his process. These works are an effort to explore the essence of the medium; independent of content, in the same way that abstract expressionism was an effort at exploring the essence of painting free of content. The electromagnetogram is an effort at isolating light, surface, saturation, and rhythm in through the photographic process.
The lecture and slideshow will detail how an Electromagnetogram is made, and include an audience-safe, laser light demonstration of the various diffraction, and refraction processes used to expose the photographic paper. In addition, short video excerpts will be played from the PBS documentary created during the Mountain Lake Workshop collaboration between Liz Liguori, Jessie Mann, and Sally Mann.
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