Fawn Potash
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Fawn Potash es una artista residente en Guanajuato (México) cuya obra se ha expuesto en Nueva York, en los estados del este de Estados Unidos y en su ciudad natal, San Luis ( Missouri). Su obra forma parte de colecciones de todo el mundo, como las de Sony, Dow Jones, Standard and Poors Asia, Bibiliotech National de París y Sheraton Hotels de Montreal. Sus numerosas funciones educativas y administrativas le han brindado la oportunidad de integrar los talentos del hemisferio izquierdo y derecho del cerebro, aunando el arte y la vida laboral, como por ejemplo durante 20 años en la Escuela de Artes Visuales de Nueva York, donde dirigió un seminario de crítica para estudiantes de fotografía.
Su actual trabajo de estudio explora las formas y sombras de los envases de plástico de consumo en una serie de bodegones en los que utiliza uno de los medios de impresión más antiguos de la fotografía: la cianotipia, inventada en 1842. Las formas de plástico que cuelgan junto a las impresiones son ejemplos de los envases de plástico utilizados en este trabajo.
Piezas en venta:
Fawn Potash
“PlayStation 4 Headset, 6pm”
Cianotipia
$2,500 mxn
Fawn Potash
“Lettuce Container, 5pm”
Cianotipia
$2,500 mxn
Fawn Potash
“Home Depot Items, 4pm”
Cianotipia
$2,500 mxn
Fawn Potash
“Office Supplies, 2pm”
Cianotipia
$2,500 mxn
Fawn Potash
“Dog Treats”
$2,500 mxn
Cianotipia
Fawn Potash
“Office Supplies”
Cianotipia
$2,500 mxn
Por la compra de dos, 10% de descuento.
Por la compra de 3, 15% de descuento.
Por la compra de 4, 20% de descuento.
Impresiones adicionales disponibles.
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Valentina Osorio
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473 106 6011
Fawn Potash is a studio artist based in Guanajuato, Mexico whose work has been shown in New York City, across the eastern US states and in her hometown, St. Louis, Missouri. Her work is in collections worldwide including the Sony, Dow Jones, Standard and Poors Asia, Bibiliotech National in Paris and Sheraton Hotels, Montreal. Potash’s work has received grant support from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Puffin Foundation, the Bell Atlantic Foundation, Fuji and Ilford Inc. Her many educational and administrative roles have offered opportunities to integrate left and right brain talents, bringing art and work life together including a 20 year tenure at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, leading a criticism seminar for photography majors. She shaped the workshops at the Center for Photography at Woodstock over a fifteen year period and jump started the fledgling galleries at the Catskill Mountain Foundation. Her five years as the Visual Arts Director at the Greene County Council on the Arts focused on curatorial partnerships between the arts, area culture and community groups. As Director of Masters on Main Street, she created pop-up exhibitions, film festivals, workshops and performance events as a national showcase for MFA students, recent alumni, local and national artists of note. This project helped to rev up Catskill Main Street’s economic engines, enliven the downtown and connect residents and visitors across community sectors.
Her current studio work explores the shapes and shadows of plastic consumer packaging in a still life series using one of photography’s oldest print media- cyanotypes first invented in 1842. This non-toxic process uses a hand-painted emulsion with light sensitive iron salts, applied to absorbent cotton paper, exposed to UV light and processed in plain water. Objects laid directly on the print surface are called photograms (photo/light + gram/drawing), without using a camera or lens. Exposures in the sun, at noon create recognizable blue and white silhouettes of these everyday objects. Exposures at 3pm or 6pm create a distorted version of the plastic forms because of the sun’s angle. Also on display are cyanotype photographs, using a camera, digital negative and the same sun exposure with water processing. I am interested in the transformation of these cultural artifacts into something organic looking; designed by humans and made by machines, these images might be macro or microscopic entities, internal organs or maybe something cosmic. The plastic forms hanging alongside the prints are examples of the plastic packaging used in this work.
Prints are MX$2500 each.
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Purchase 3 for 15% off.
Purchase 4 for 20% off.
Additional prints available.