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| Ghost of a Tree 2011/12 digital print on vinyl, drywall, wood, wood column 10' x 8' x 14' |
Check out these photographic sculptures by American artist Letha Wilson!
Born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado and living in New York, Letha Wilson has been producing mixed media works; playing with the physicality of photography and combining the element of 3D. They come across as abstract and interesting. Wilson cleverly places her 3D feature of the work which forces the focal point into view. She ranges from site-specific installations to photographs hanging on a wall. She either folds, cuts, adds to her photographs which heightens the character of a simple 2D photograph to something else. And definitely makes landscape photography less boring to look at!
"My artwork uses images and materials from the natural landscape as a starting point for interpretation and confrontation. My work creates relationships between architecture and nature, and the gallery space and the American wilderness. In the photo-based sculptures the ability for a photograph to transport the viewer is both called upon, and questioned; sculptural intervention attempts to compensate for the photograph’s failure to encompass the physical site it represents. Landscape photography as a genre is approached with equal parts reverence and skepticism. In another body of work, site-specific installations juxtapose re-claimed wood and drywall material in innovative ways that respond to both interior and outdoors environments, and comment on the glut of material discarded in the contemporary art exhibition cycle." via.
Be sure to check out her website portfolio for more of her works and updates on her next shows if they will be near you!
More after the jump!
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| Vertical Horizons (White Sands) 2010 folded c-print and frame 15" x 12" |
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| Concrete Snowbank 2011 unique c-print, museum board, plywood, cement 29" x 16 1/2" x 10" |
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| Granite Tumbler 2010 C-print, rubber, cut plexi glass, frame, 13" x 30" x 3" |
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And So On (California) 2007 C-print, wood, paint 50" x 40" x 2" |
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Extrusions of Five Palm Trees near Lake Mead, Nevada 2003 Digital print, wood, styrafoam, plaster, paint 60" x 72" x 62" |
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Extrusion of Dad into Joshua Tree, Arizona 2006 Digital print on canvas, Expanded Polystyrene 58" x 60" x 32"  |
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| Vertical Horizon 2010 c-print, cut plexiglass, aluminium frame |
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