Curated by Janie Perez-Radler
Opening Reception: August 2, 5-8 pm
Casemore Gallery is pleased to present A Petal’s Edge, an exhibition featuring six emerging artists, Cole Barash, Luz Carabaño, Sophronia Cook, Dylan Hausthor, Cecilia Mignon, and Chanell Stone, whose work collectively traces and reinterprets the historical function of photography in conversation with sculpture, printmaking, and painting.
Originally a tool for documentation and depiction, photography has increasingly become a site of hybridized exploration and play. These experimental displays incorporate traditional photographic elements while delving into the subconscious, celebrating the obvious, and engaging with the artists’ deeply personal narratives often tied to the natural world.
Conventional expectations of photographic representation are disrupted, prompting the viewer to consider the tactile and dynamic quality of the work with equal reverence as its conceptual content.
“The rose is obsolete
but each petal ends in
an edge, the double facet
cementing the grooved
columns of air--The edge
cuts without cutting
meets--nothing--renews
itself in metal or porcelain–
(excerpt of “The Rose is Obsolete” by William Carolos Williams, 1923)