Art: Photography

Penelope Umbrico: Leonards for Leonard & 5,537,594 Suns From Flickr (Partial) 5/30/09

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On May 30 of last year, Brooklyn-based artist Penelope Umbrico keyed "sunset" into Flickr's search engine and received 5,537,594 matches. The virtual orbs found on this date provide the "raw" material for her latest eye-catching work, prosaically if scientifically titled 5,537,594 Suns From Flickr (Partial) 5/30/09. Umbrico crops these found suns into prints to fill the exhibiting Natman Room, which happens to be subject of her other project, Leonards for Leonard. In this installation, she looks into the history of the space to highlight the charged line between pre- and post-digital times.

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