LAUREL LAUDERS (MFA '10) ON WHITE @ OPUS PROJECTS
Laurel Lueders: On White
April 26 –May 11, 2013
Opus Projects / 526 West 26th Street, Suite 705, New York, NY 10001
OPUS Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Laurel Lueders entitled On White running April 26 – May 11, 2013.An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 25, from 6-8pm.
For her first solo exhibition with Opus Projects, Laurel Lueders presents On White, a series of new photographs that use the camera as it’s own means of abstraction. Lueders relies on the mechanism of the camera, exaggerating and manipulating its settings, to convey a sense of place without inherent structure or fixed narrative. The abstract images reference architectural environments, unrecognizable to specific location or time, but undeniably suggestive of human presence. The hazy wash of the images create the feeling of déjà vu, the experience of waking from a dream, or the attempt to recall a memory not fully formed. Playing with photography’s relationship to documentation, Lueders suggests that all images are palimpsests, and that apparent beneath the surface is a larger history waiting to be unearthed.
Subverting the photographer’s role in accurate representation, Lueders purposefully plays with camera shake, extended shutter speed, and time-lapse – employing the camera as a mark-making tool. On White is a painterly series of works, showcasing the camera’s ability to create lines with light. Mounted but unframed, Lueders’s photographs operate as canvases, the mark of her hand both paramount and pervasive. Elevating the weight of the intimate gesture, she suggests that our spatial memory can be triggered simply through a line, grid, or abstract pattern. Existing as individual works, as well as components of a larger framework and narrative, On White evokes a seductive and ghostly sense of place.
Laurel Lueders is an artist and educator living and working in New York, NY. Lueders received her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998, her MS in Design Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002, and her MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY in 2010. Lueders photographic work has been the subject of solo shows in Germany, Wisconsin, and Brooklyn, most recently including Imprints, Rektoratsvilla, Hochschule Harz University, Wernigerode, Germany (2012); and Within Without at the Schlossmuseum, Quedlinburg, Germany (2011). She has exhibited in group exhibitions including Wilson Center Retrospective, Ploch Gallery, Wilson Center for the Arts, WI (2012); Seductive Resolution, 571 Projects Gallery, New York, NY (2011); Digital Unity, Annex Art, Berlin, Germany (2011); Urban Legend, curated by Leonora Loeb, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY (2011); among others. Lueders’s work is in public and private collections, including the permanent collection at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts, The Byzant Center for Visual Arts, the Sharjah Art Museum, and the Q-Druck Gross Order Collection. Lueders is the subject of an upcoming solo exhibition at the Museum of Wisconsin Art opening in December 2013.