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Lancaster, CA. January 13, 2025 – The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) is pleased to announce its latest exhibition Before You Now: Photographic Transmutations. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 25 from 2 to 4 p.m, and the exhibition will be on view at MOAH until Sunday, April 13, 2025.
Before You Now: Photographic Transmutations features the work of artists Naida Osline, Andrew K. Thompson, Ellen Friedlander, Osceola Refetoff, and Brad Miller. Through traditional and non-traditional methods, these artists transcend the photographic medium, creating works that transcend the two-dimensional plane of standard photography.
In the museum’s Main Gallery, Naida Osline’s Botany of Transcendence explores her interest in botanical art, bringing together five bodies of work. At the heart of these series are various plants such as tobacco, opium poppies, coffee, and coca. Through contemporary photography, Botany of Transcendence examines their social and historical connection to humanity. Also, on the first floor, Brad Miller’s Water Shadows uncover a hidden world contained within simple bubbles. Produced through a combination of analog photographic film and high-resolution digital scanning, Miller captures the split moment of light passing through water, yielding images that are dense with intricate patterns, shapes, and forms.
Both Andrew K. Thompson’s A Sky Full of Holes and Osceola Refetoff’s Magic and Realism bridge analog and digital unorthodox methods of photography. Thompson combines analog photographic development with instances of physicality. His photographs are rich in color and are punctured and ripped, pushing his work beyond the constraints of a flat geometric plane. Refetoff’s images employ the use of analog lens filters and modified digital cameras to see the world in infrared. Additionally, a pinhole lens is used to evoke older styles of photographs. With these tools, Refetoff creates a body of work that pushes alternative photographic processes to contemporary times.
The Soul Speaks demonstrates Ellen Friedlander’s ability to create portraits that unlock the hidden depths of a subject. Through the use of a pinhole lens, long exposure times, and the physical act of cutting and reassembling, she is able to create surreal, dreamlike images that are layered with the intimate remnants of time rather than just a single moment.
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