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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:00:00 GMT

Jessica Eaton

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:00:00 GMT

Goings On About Town: Art by Vince Alleti

Jesscia Eaton Cubes for Albers and LeWitt

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:00:00 GMT

DLK Collection

Jessica Eaton: Cubes for Albers and LeWitt

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:00:00 GMT

October 21, 2011

Jessica Eaton
Cubes for Albers and LeWitt

November 3 – December 17, 2011
Opening: Thursday, November 3, 6 - 8 pm

Higher Pictures presents Cubes for Albers and LeWitt the first solo New York exhibition by Jessica Eaton.

Jessica Eaton creates art in consideration of what Joseph Albers called the "discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect". Eaton's instruments for seeing are a negotiation of perceivable reality and how photography works in order to expand the potential of a constructed photograph. The work produces an effect where a steady gaze becomes a steady haze.

The series Cubes for Albers and LeWitt explores the possibilities of manipulating time, space perception and, in particular, the additive system of color. The images are constructed on sheets of 4 x 5 film. The subject is in reality monochromatic. The photographs use a set of cubes and ground options painted white, two tones of grey, and black. Through multiple exposures, the color hues in each image have been made by exposing the film to additive primaries of red, green and blue. The reflective value of the cubes controls the value of lightness of that hue, and the black is utilized as a type of reflective mask, keeping potential on the film for other exposures. The images are completely photographic yet not visible to the naked eye. -Jessica Eaton

Jessica Eaton (b. 1977, lives in Montreal) holds a BFA in photography from the Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver. Since graduating in 2006 Eaton has exhibited regularly in group and solo shows in Canada and the United States. Her photographs have been published in numerous publications including Wallpaper; Foam; Hunter and Cook; BlackFlash; Color; Pyramid Power and Lay Flat 02: Meta among others. Artnews reproduced Eaton’s “cfaal (mb RGB) 18, 2010” on the cover of March 2011 to accompany the article, The New Photography.

For press inquiries please contact Kim Bourus at 212-249-6100.

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Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:00:00 GMT

Jill Freedman: Street Cops 1978-1981

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:00:00 GMT

DLK Collection

Jessica Eaton

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:00:00 GMT

Cubes for Albers and Lewitt interview by Anne-Celine Jaeger

Jill Freedman

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:00:00 GMT

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Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:00:00 GMT

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Jill Freedman: Street Cops 1978-1981

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:00:00 GMT

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Jill Freedman Street Cops 1978-1981

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:00:00 GMT

By Norman Borden

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Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:00:00 GMT

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Jill Freedman

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:00:00 GMT

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Jill Freedman: Street Cops 1978 - 1981

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:00:00 GMT

Septemeber 7, 2011

Jill Freedman

Street Cops, 1978 – 1981

September 15 – October 29, 2011

Opening: Thursday, September 15, 6 - 8 pm

Higher Pictures opens the season with Street Cops, 1978 - 1981, an exhibition of vintage photographs by Jill Freedman.

Street Cops captures a wild period in New York City history where junkies, drunks, prostitutes and lunatics openly walked the streets. This remarkable body of work is the result of Freedman on foot patrol and riding in the police cruisers of the Ninth and Midtown South Precincts, which included Alphabet City and the raunchy blocks around Times Square. Street Cops shows an intelligent empathy towards the police and their attitudes of like-mindedness.

Jill Freedman's work is immediate and alive. Life in Freedman's work is real and not simulated. The works' no-holds-barred sensibility is the result of the freedoms advantaged by a self- taught artist. This exhibition at Higher Pictures marks the first time this well known body of work has been shown in New York City.

Jill Freedman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1939. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and has had her work published in leading newspapers and magazines. Freedman's work is in over fifteen major collections including The New York Public Library, The Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, International Center of Photography, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

For press inquiries please contact Kim Bourus at 212-249-6100.

Jesscia Eaton

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:00:00 GMT

Cubes for Albers and LeWitt in Border Crossings