Cutting and Crumpling to Transform the Photograph

Mickalene Thomas, Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe les Trois Femmes Noir #5, 2017. Mixed media collage. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson.

Kensuke Koike, Triangle, 2018. Hand-cut found postcard. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery.

Pello Irazu, Borrar 4A, 2015. Digital print and acrylic paint. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson.

Mary Lum, Museum, 2015. Photo collage with acrylic on paper. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson.

Joseph Maida, Untitled (Nude), 2017 from A Third Look. Archival pigment print collage. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson.

John Baldessari, National City (1), 1996/2009. Chromogenic print with acrylic paint. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson.

Erin Shirreff, A.P. (no.19), 2017. Archival pigment print with fold. Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins and Co.

Mary Lum, Untitled, 2015. Photo collage with acrylic on paper. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson.

Kensuke Koike, Horse x Elephant, 2018

Kensuke Koike, Big Beach, 2016. Hand-cut found postcards. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery.

This year’s summer exhibition at Yancey Richardson brings together a group of artists who explore the inventive ways in which the photographic print can be transformed. In the show, photographs and photographic postcards are cut, torn, folded, crumpled, scratched, burned, taped, painted and collaged. Many of the pieces were made with an irreversibility more common to painting and drawing than photography. The final works bear the mark of the artist’s hand, resulting in unique pieces that combine image and object.

Interventions, on view through August 24, 2018, features artists John Baldessari, Mary Ellen Bartley, Marco Breuer, Moyra Davey, Jay Defeo, Sandi Haber Fifield, Bryan Graf, Nicholas Hall, Pello Irazu, Matthew Jensen, Kenneth Josephson, Kensuke Koike, Elad Lassry, Mary Lum, Joseph Maida, Chris Mccaw, Vik Muniz, Rachel Perry, Alyson Shotz, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Erin Shirreff, Doug & Mike Starn, Mickalene Thomas and Masao Yamamoto.

Interventions
Yancey Richardson
Through August 24, 2018

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