Recent photos by Los Angeles born photographer Richard Misrach are on display through February 20 at the Chelsea gallery, part of PaceWildenstein galleries, in New York. The exhibition features nearly twenty large-scale pigment prints from Misrach’s 2007-2009 series, Untitled.
Misrach was considered by many a pioneer in the 1970s for his use of color photography and his work can be seen in over fifty museum collections worldwide. With this series, he again pushes the boundaries; his photographs range in size from 4 by 6 feet to nearly 8 by 10 feet and are almost all created without film.
Through digital photography, Misrach creates images of landscapes and seascapes in reverse color spectrum by using a positive capture (the equivalent of a negative from a film camera). This series continues his work in photographing the American landscape but transforms it into an alternate reality.
The ocean takes on pink and red hues while rocky landscapes along the coast of Oregon look like ice sculptures. His subjects look other worldly yet familiar at the same time.
Gallery Spotlight, by Shelby Blitz, is a series of weekly short features on art exhibitions, and the galleries that host them, from all corners of the world.