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John Cyr @ Elizabeth Houston Gallery
John Cyr: Developer Trays
March 28 – May 5 , 2 0 1 8
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 28th from 7-9pm
“The developer tray is the most unassuming of objects, and Cyr insists upon that quiet objecthood. Photographing in a uniform style, the artist is uncanny in his ability to capture its painterly abstractions and the materiality of its functional construction. This is a technique that, paradoxically, reveals the intimacy of personal artistic practice and the gravity of photographic history writ large. Cyr sought out photographers, some iconic, others virtually unknown beyond the hallowed halls of the academy, to capture a collective moment on the verge of oblivion. That moment, of course, was not slight. For over 100 years, the unobtrusive tray had held forth as the standard bearer of silver gelatin printing. We do well to remember that the developer tray had long withstood the obsolescence to which technology in our time seems perennially fated. A printer himself, Cyr is uniquely attuned to the evidence the developer tray holds as an implement of private practice. Its hues and marks are loaded.”
Elizabeth Houston Gallery
190 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
Location: New York, New York City, United States Type: Exhibition
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