Jay Wolke @ Epiphany Center for the Arts

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Jay Wolke @ Epiphany Center for the Arts

November 2nd, 2022 by fstop

Jay Wolke: Past, Present, Future
November 4th – December 17th

Opening Reception: November 4th | 6 – 9 PM

“Epiphany Center for the Arts is pleased to present Past, Present, Future by Jay Wolke. This exhibition is part of an ongoing series at Slemmons Gallery in which contemporary photographers use antique cameras from the Rod Slemmons Camera Archive to create new bodies of work. The Al Vista was made by the Multiscope & Film Corporation around 1900. It was intended to give the amateur photographer the ability to photograph grand landscapes on location, such as mountain ranges, fleets of ships or a whole city. Instead of using this camera as intended however, Wolke repurposed this instrument to record abstract “landscapes” made in the studio. His intention is to merge analogue with digital, choreographing film exposures that utilize multiple semi-transparent backdrops and lighting effects in tandem with moving elements. The unique, spring-loaded, 180-degree shutter mechanism was exploited to evoke filmic artifacts, while other, digitally created forms create a transformative marriage between 19th and 21st Century technologies.”

Epiphany Center for the Arts
Slemmons Gallery
201 S Ashland Ave
Chicago, IL

Location: Chicago, Illinois Type: Exhibition

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