Now on view through June is an exhibition titled Struck by Light: A Retrospective of Photograms by Ellen Carey. The artist uses one of the earliest processes in photography, which creates a shadow image from objects that are placed directly on photosensitive paper and then exposed to light. The resulting works are abstract in aesthetic and completely contemporary in their conceptual approach to color and light. Her more recent works utilize Polaroid materials in line with her photogram techniques. Carey’s work is featured in The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, a new title from Aperture with an accompanying exhibition. To find out more on the artist and her work, St. Joseph College Art Gallery hosts a free artist’s talk with Ellen Carey this week.

Struck by Light: A Retrospective of Photograms by Ellen Carey
Friday, April 3–Sunday, June 21, 2009

Gallery Talk with artist
Thursday, May 7  5:30 pm

FREE

Saint Joseph College Art Gallery
1678 Asylum Avenue
West Hartford, Connecticut
(860) 232-4571

Tags: Ellen Carey, photograms, Polaroid, retrospective

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