Eleanor Owen Kerr:

Illuminations

january 31 - february 23, 2023

FIRST WEDNESDAY OPENING: feb 1, FROM 6 - 9PM

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Eleanor Owen Kerr uses photographic processes to reflect her ruminations on nature, and place. Often her work is quiet, meditative, and still. She uses composition to whisper life into the work. Her recent cyanotypes are powerful, beautiful, contemplations of the world around her. She focused in, way in, on a single garden to tell the stories found within.

Created in nature, about nature, by nature - this work arose from the fundamental joy found in a garden by the sea.
Illuminated by the sun:
Each piece of paper was exposed directly in the sunlight after being hand coated with photosensitive cyanotype emulsion. In the process of exposure, objects arranged on the paper were altered or consumed by the heat of the sun during long exposure times. Often this process caused condensation and outgassing, embedding the paper with vestiges of the objects themselves.
Illuminated with gold leaf:
As illuminated medieval manuscripts were enhanced with gold and silver, gold leaf emphasizes emotional and imaginative qualities of these pieces.
Illuminated by contemplation:
Contemplation of these common natural objects, enhanced with the natural element of gold,offers fresh ways to encounter the world around us.

Eleanor Owen Kerr lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and can frequently be found in mid-coast Maine. Eleanor’s photographs are in the permanent collections of the U.S. State Department, ART in Embassies and the LSU Museum of Art, as well as numerous corporate and private collections. Her work is featured regularly at juried exhibitions around the country. She has received awards from groups such as the International Photography Awards, Prix de la Photographie de Paris, Black and White Spider Awards, and Women in Photography International. Kerr’s work has been published by SHOTS Journal of Photography, The Photo Review, Photographer’s Forum, and Silvershotz International Journal of Fine Art Photography; recently, her “On the Batture” project was featured in Lenscratch (January 2019). She is represented by Carol Robinson Gallery in New Orleans, Baton Rouge Gallery and Ann Connelly Fine Art in Baton Rouge, and Photography West Gallery in Carmel, California.

Eleanor uses large format cameras and makes film-based, silver gelatin prints in a traditional wet darkroom. She also works in other alternative processes such as platinum/palladium and cyanotype.

This exhibition is presented alongside the latest works from Jessica Sharpe and Beth Welch. All works from these artists are on view, free of charge, during normal gallery hours (12 - 6 p.m., Tue - Sun) from January 31 through February 23rd, 2023.