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IN FOCUS: JOANNE DUGAN

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12 November 2021 - 9 January 2022
  • IN FOCUS / JOANNE DUGAN

  • Every day for the next 10 days, Black Box Projects will be showcasing a brand-new work from Joanne Dugan's Persistent...
     
    Every day for the next 10 days, Black Box Projects will be showcasing a brand-new work from Joanne Dugan's Persistent Awakening series and sharing an insight into her processes of making. Stay tuned for a sneak peek into her forthcoming UK solo show, coming Spring 2022 at Black Box Projects...
     
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    • Joanne Dugan, Instinct #1, 2021
      Joanne Dugan, Instinct #1, 2021
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      Joanne Dugan
      Instinct #1, 2021
      Mounted collage of forty-nine handmade cyanotype photograms on a 20" x 24" 8-ply museum board
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      24 x 20 inches
    • Joanne Dugan creates unique works using traditional photographic tools and processes, often without the use of a camera. Multiples are printed, cut, and assembled by hand - the physical print is both the subject and the object in Dugan's work. The artist utilises a slow and methodical approach to rendering a work, a purposeful response to the fast-paced world of digital photography and technological advancement. Dugan brings a meditative practice to the making of her works, where the creation and assembly of the finished pieces involves repetitive movements and intricate hand-cutting techniques.

      Joanne Dugan creates unique works using traditional photographic tools and processes, often without the use of a camera. Multiples are printed, cut, and assembled by hand - the physical print is both the subject and the object in Dugan's work. The artist utilises a slow and methodical approach to rendering a work, a purposeful response to the fast-paced world of digital photography and technological advancement. Dugan brings a meditative practice to the making of her works, where the creation and assembly of the finished pieces involves repetitive movements and intricate hand-cutting techniques.

       

       

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      Joanne Dugan
      Enlightenment #1, 2020
      Mounted collage of 55 individually cut, handmade silver gelatin photographs and one luminogram, on a 24" x 30" 8-ply museum board
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      76.2 x 61 cms
      30 x 24 inches
    • Joanne Dugan's newest series Persistent Awakening combines the distinctive Prussian blue of the cyanotype process with her regular monochrome palette. Re-interpreting the history and visual possibilities of traditional silver gelatin and cyanotype photographic processes, the series is delightfully unexpected, thoughtful, and visually satisfying in its abstracted forms. "So much of the process is about letting go and having the materials guide me to where I need to go next. It's as much about what I don't do as what I do. And also accepting the fact that ultimately, I am not in control" - Joanne Dugan

      Joanne Dugan's newest series Persistent Awakening combines the distinctive Prussian blue of the cyanotype process with her regular monochrome palette. Re-interpreting the history and visual possibilities of traditional silver gelatin and cyanotype photographic processes, the series is delightfully unexpected, thoughtful, and visually satisfying in its abstracted forms.

       

      "So much of the process is about letting go and having the materials guide me to where I need to go next. It's as much about what I don't do as what I do. And also accepting the fact that ultimately, I am not in control" - Joanne Dugan

       

       

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      Joanne Dugan
      Duality #3, 2021
      20" x 16" hybrid silver gelatin print/cyanotype painting
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    • Joanne Dugan, Balancing #3, 2021
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      Joanne Dugan
      Balancing #3, 2021
      Mounted collage of eight handmade silver gelatin photograms on a 30"x40" 8-ply museum board
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      101.6 x 76.2 cms
      40 x 30 inches
    • "I am interested in the use of light as a contemplative medium. Each of my works is ultimately about the contemplation of light, and the myriad reactions-both physical and emotional- that interacting with light evokes." - Joanne Dugan Throughout her oeuvre, photographic processes are used as a means of recording the traces of light and its interaction with the photographic chemistry. Its indexical nature is used not solely as way to faithfully reproduce external realities, but also to record the gestures of the hand, the traces of the artist and her serendipitous encounters with the process. The title of this piece, 'Improvisation', reflects the spontaneous quality of Joanne's making process in which she constantly straddles the border between pure chance and meticulous intricacy.

      "I am interested in the use of light as a contemplative medium. Each of my works is ultimately about the contemplation of light, and the myriad reactions-both physical and emotional- that interacting with light evokes." - Joanne Dugan 

       

      Throughout her oeuvre, photographic processes are used as a means of recording the traces of light and its interaction with the photographic chemistry. Its indexical nature is used not solely as way to faithfully reproduce external realities, but also to record the gestures of the hand, the traces of the artist and her serendipitous encounters with the process. 

       

      The title of this piece, 'Improvisation', reflects the spontaneous quality of Joanne's making process in which she constantly straddles the border between pure chance and meticulous intricacy.

       

       

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      Joanne Dugan
      Improvisation #1, 2019
      Mounted collage of forty-nine handmade 1.5" x 2" gelatin silver prints on a 16" x 20" 4-ply museum board
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      50.8 x 40.6 cms
      20 x 16 inches
    • We're delighted to be sharing this wonderful painterly piece from Joanne Dugan's new Persistent Awakening series. This collage of handmade cyanotype paintings was heavily inspired by Joanne's ongoing meditation practice, as well as by her fascination into the intersections between photography and painting. Using the cyanotype process, she explores the fundamentals of the photographic medium whilst harnessing its gestural capabilities. In many of her works, a punctum of sorts disrupts the repetitive forms, symbolising the flash of insight that can occur through meditation. Some meditation practitioners call this moment of enlightenment, 'satori.'

      We're delighted to be sharing this wonderful painterly piece from Joanne Dugan's new Persistent Awakening series.

       

      This collage of handmade cyanotype paintings was heavily inspired by Joanne's ongoing meditation practice, as well as by her fascination into the intersections between photography and painting. Using the cyanotype process, she explores the fundamentals of the photographic medium whilst harnessing its gestural capabilities. 

       

      In many of her works, a punctum of sorts disrupts the repetitive forms, symbolising the flash of insight that can occur through meditation. Some meditation practitioners call this moment of enlightenment, 'satori.'

       

       

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      Joanne Dugan
      Insight #5, 2021
      Mounted collage of sixteen handmade cyanotype paintings on a 20" x 24" 8-ply museum board
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      61 x 50.8 cms
      24 x 20 inches
    • Repetition is a cornerstone in Dugan's meditative practice as well as in her creative process, in which she presents the viewer with reoccurring forms constructed from abstracted shadows and structured grid lines. It is Dugan's repetition of forms, themes and structure within her collaged grids that allows for the seriality of her work. The silver gelatin pieces speak directly to the cyanotype works through her use of recognisable shapes and gridded compositions, responding to each other as if in perpetual conversation. In many of her compositions, including this piece from her new Persistent Awakening series, there is a visual disruption, a part of the image that stands out from the rest and breaks the pattern of repetitive forms. This represents the flash of insight that occurs through meditation. In Buddhist practice this awakening is called Satori, or enlightenment.

      Repetition is a cornerstone in Dugan's meditative practice as well as in her creative process, in which she presents the viewer with reoccurring forms constructed from abstracted shadows and structured grid lines. It is Dugan's repetition of forms, themes and structure within her collaged grids that allows for the seriality of her work. The silver gelatin pieces speak directly to the cyanotype works through her use of recognisable shapes and gridded compositions, responding to each other as if in perpetual conversation.

       

      In many of her compositions, including this piece from her new Persistent Awakening series, there is a visual disruption, a part of the image that stands out from the rest and breaks the pattern of repetitive forms. This represents the flash of insight that occurs through meditation. In Buddhist practice this awakening is called Satori, or enlightenment.  

       

       

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      View Detail PageJoanne Dugan Presence #1, 2020 Mounted collage of twenty-five handmade cyanotype photograms on a 16"x20" 4 ply museum board Unique Print only 50.8 x 40.6 cms 20 x 16 inches
    • The negative space created by the grids in Dugan's work allows the viewer to see not just what the artist has chosen to present, but to also imagine the possibility of the abstracted forms extending in all directions infinitely. The lines created between the arranged photograms of Dugan's collages serve as a catalyst, providing a suggested path and demanding it to be followed. Here, perfection is set aside in favour of the artist's touch. Each individual image is hand-cut and arranged on the supporting board. Placed methodically, with purposeful repetition, the artist finds meaning and stability in an uncertain time through the abstracted forms that come to life through Dugan's meditative creative process. As the artist is conveying her own experiences through her work, she is also speaking of a universal experience of isolation, uncertainty and fear that is shared through her community and indeed worldwide.

      The negative space created by the grids in Dugan's work allows the viewer to see not just what the artist has chosen to present, but to also imagine the possibility of the abstracted forms extending in all directions infinitely. The lines created between the arranged photograms of Dugan's collages serve as a catalyst, providing a suggested path and demanding it to be followed.

       

      Here, perfection is set aside in favour of the artist's touch. Each individual image is hand-cut and arranged on the supporting board. Placed methodically, with purposeful repetition, the artist finds meaning and stability in an uncertain time through the abstracted forms that come to life through Dugan's meditative creative process. As the artist is conveying her own experiences through her work, she is also speaking of a universal experience of isolation, uncertainty and fear that is shared through her community and indeed worldwide.

       

       

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      Joanne Dugan
      Acceptance #2, 2021
      Mounted collage of nine handmade silver gelatin photograms on a 16"x20" 8-ply museum board
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      20 x 16 inches
    • Joanne Dugan, Centering #1, 2021
      Joanne Dugan, Centering #1, 2021
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      Joanne Dugan
      Centering #1, 2021
      Mounted collage of four handmade silver gelatin photograms on a 20"x24" 8-ply museum board
      Unique
      Print only
      61 x 50.8 cms
      24 x 20 inches
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  • Joanne Dugan

    Joanne Dugan in the studio, New York City. Image courtesy of Daniel Prosky.

    Working exclusively with analogue silver gelatin and cyanotype prints, Joanne Dugan creates unique works by hand using traditional photographic tools and processes, often without the use of a camera. Multiples are printed, cut and assembled by hand - the physical print is both the subject and the object in Dugan's work.

      

    Dugan's works are a triumph of minimal abstraction reminiscent of late modernist and optical art. The stark, monochromatic black and white contrasts and repetitions create the impression of movement within these quiet, slow-process, meditative works.

     

     

    BIOGRAPHY

     

    Joanne Dugan is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City.

    Her current practice involves the experimental use of traditional silver-based analogue materials and technology to explore photography as a three-dimensional, physical medium. Her unique-image works utilize intricate, repetitive hand-cutting and painting techniques, chemical alterations and vintage equipment to pay homage to the physical limitations and opportunities found in analogue methods, while also exploring the potential for creating works informed by mindfulness practices. Each piece is fully rendered by hand, slowly.

     

    Joanne's works have been exhibited in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Amsterdam and Japan. They are part of public and private collections and have been featured in The New York Times T Magazine and the Harvard Review. 

     

    As an author, Joanne's image/text pairings have been published in seven books, including two fine-art monographs. Her limited-edition artist book Mostly True is in the permanent library collections of The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The New York Public Library and The George Eastman House. She is the editor of Summertime (Chronicle Books), a hardcover photography book featuring the work 46 emerging and established photographers.

     

    Joanne is a faculty member of the International Center of Photography in New York City and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. She has taught and lectured about the creative process in numerous institutions across the country. As an active mentor for students in many contexts, she is at work on a new book about the use of photography as a daily creative practice. Her studio and darkroom are located in a 19th-century building in Union Square and she lives in Harlem. 

     

     

     

    **Please note prices are quoted as print only and subject to VAT of 20% where applicable.

    **Prices and availability are subject to change without prior notice.

    **Framing prices can be advised and quoted upon request.

     

    Please contact the gallery for more details of this series and to arrange a private viewing.

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