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Amy Granat: Light 3 Ways
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June 23, 2010 – Sep 19, 2010
Wednesdays (noon–7pm)
Thursdays–Fridays (noon–9pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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$12, $10 seniors, $8 students, 18 and under FREE
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Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical alteration. Her practice though, is wide-ranging, and also includes video, sound, and photography. Granat’s photograms, in which objects are laid on top of film and then exposed to light, are related to her films in terms of her physical approach to image-making. Both of these aspects of her work reveal a fascination with transparency and opacity, and positive and negative space. If Granat’s experimentations with the photogram—a method that emphasizes the intrinsic quality of film, allowing her to “draw” with light—conjures the work of Man Ray in the 1930s, her direct manipulation of film stock is an homage to avant-garde filmmakers of the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, such as Stan Brakhage. Non-narrative, Brakhage’s films are abstract compositions with affinities to postwar Abstract Expressionist painting.
