October 8 - November 12, 2022
From Kirk Hopper Fine Art:
“Photographs are generally two-dimensional images. When the content of a photograph is a single flat surface, those two dimensions are reinforced. Such photographs are clearly less common than the ones that produce a limited illusion of three-dimensionality. Those characteristics of photographs are a given and have been since the advent of Niépce’s visually flat heliographic reproductions of engravings, and the illusory depth engendered by the single-point perspective view from his window as rendered, faintly, on a pewter plate.
In addition to the dimensionality inherited from the first photographs, technology today allows for ever larger photographs, which can change how they would otherwise operate. For example, most of the prints in this exhibition are 1:1 scale, which increases the already inherent verisimilitude of most photographs.
My recent Prepared Shelves series is an extension of my work referencing W.H.F. Talbot’s photographs of shelves loaded with books, china, plaster casts, etc. To determine what I place on shelves and where, my primary criteria are whether certain objects can be wedged into spaces left around and between other objects, a process that involves a degree of chance. When the spaces are filled in, the outcome is a collection of sometimes disparate objects and materials. One side of the shelves displays pronounced visual depth. Almost everything on that side is arranged to produce the appearance of flatness on the opposite side, where every element is essentially occupying the picture plane.
-Bryan Florentin, September 2022″
Reception: October 8, 2022 | 5–7 pm
Kirk Hopper Fine Art (Riverfront Blvd.)
1426 North Riverfront Boulevard
Dallas, 75207 Texas
214-760-9230
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