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Friday, October 31, 2014


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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, October 31



Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.


 

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