Posted August 11, 2011 in Member News
Major Man Ray Discovery by Ellen Carey in Aperture
Ellen Carey has begun writing in the time-honored tradition of artist-on-artist(s). "Color Me Real" is a catalogue essay (2008) for "Sol LeWitt: 100 Views", his MASS MoCA wall drawing retrospective (Yale University Press) in conjunction with MASS MoCA, Williams College Art Museum and Yale University Art Gallery (2009).
This is followed up by her discovery of the artist's "hidden" signature in a Man Ray photograph "Space Writing" (1935) with her (750) essay "What's in a Frame? The 'Space Writings' of Man Ray" revised (250) as "At Play with Man Ray" featured (with images) in the upcoming Aperture magazine. Previously noted and cited in "Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention" catalogue for The Jewish Museum (Yale University Press); a feature in Smithsonian online magazine; Kansas City Art Institute feature in its Alumni News; Carey interviews in VENU, a Connecticut cultural magazine (Google: Man Ray Discovery/Ellen Carey); her writing practice is "Pictus & Writ".
Ellen Carey, Associate Professor/Photography teaches at The Hartford Art School/ University of Hartford (ecarey@hartford.edu); she is also an independent scholar and curator. Her work was included this summer in a group exhibition at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris titled "Process(ing)". Her twin photo-based practices are "Photography Degree Zero" and "Struck by Light". Aperture is traveling (2009-2013) a group exhibition and book curated by Lyle Rexer as "The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography", which includes her Polaroid "Pulls" and color experimental photograms. She is currently working on a retrospective (1992-2011) photogram book "Struck by Light" with an essay by Andy Grundberg, the noted art historian, critic, curator and educator.
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