Eric Baillies, Laurel Lueders

April 3 – May 15  (reception 5-7:30 pm, 4/8)

Contemporary Photography: Eric Baillies & Laurel Lueders

Eric Baillies has been making an old technique new again. He has learned to make tintypes through a series of experiments to handle and work with the chemicals necessary to produce tintype plates. His technique to consistently get a clean pour of the collodion and develop the plate balances the variables of technique, exposure, development, light, age of chemicals and temperature.

Laurel Lueders subverts the photographer’s role in accurate representation by purposefully playing with camera shake, extended shutter speed, and time-lapse – employing the camera as a mark-making tool. Her new painterly series of works showcase the camera’s ability to create lines with light, suggesting that our spatial memory can be triggered simply through a line, grid, or abstract pattern.