Lois Conner
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Lois Conner¡¦s black and white photographs of lotus leaves reveal patterns of decay suspended between light and water. Made with a 7 x 17 inch banquet camera, the artist¡¦s detailed compositions dance along the intersection between calligraphy and cinema, as curvilinear stalks and irregular leaves flicker in delicate shadows and inky washes across the length of her images. The dimension of her prints invite the eye to take in the picture one element at a time, recalling the scroll landscapes of Chinese scholar art, as well as, grass-style Chinese calligraphy (caoshu), in which simple lines can become visual metaphors. Poised at the moment when space and light collapse upon each other, these photographs peer into the heart of experience, memory, regret, redemption, the continuous, the forgotten, the imagined, and the object itself, the lotus. |
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| Lois Conner holds a B.F.A. in Photography from the Pratt Institute, New York (1975), and a M.F.A. from Yale University, Connecticut (1981). An early interest in China led to a 1984 Guggenheim Grant to travel and photograph there. Since then, she has made numerous trips to the mainland and currently has a solo exhibition, Lois Conner, at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. Other recent solo shows include To Be, at Laurence Miller Gallery, New York (2003), and Yuan Ming Yuan at Sherman Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2001). Recent group shows include Encounter, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (2004); The Land Through A Lens, Smithsonian, National Museum of American Art (2003); and Life of the City: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2001). |
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| Exhibition : | Jewel in the Heart (with Emily Cheng) |
| Plum Blossoms Gallery New York | |
| May 20 - July 3, 2004 | |
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