Events
Elemental Blues: Contemporary Cyanotypes at The Griffin Museum of Photography
anna leigh clem
May 12, 2025
Summary
The Griffin Museum of Photography proudly presents its inaugural cyanotype exhibition, 𝙀𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝘽𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙨: 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝘾𝙮𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙮𝙥𝙚𝙨, featuring Anna Leigh Clem, Brett Windham, Bryan Whitney, Julia Whitney Barnes, Sally Chapman and Cynthia Katz. The show features the distinct and innovative works of six New England and Upstate New York-based artists that reveal the versatility of the medium through diverse processes and mixed-media explorations.
This collection of works is on the walls of Griffin Museum of Photography's satellite location at Lafayette City Center Place. Located in Boston’s Downtown Crossing, the address is 2 Ave de Lafayette, Boston, MA 02111, and the hours are 6am—10pm daily.
Artist Panel I: May 21, 2025 • 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Featuring Anna Leigh Clem, Julia Whitney Barnes and Sally Chapman
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Presenting photographs of the Basin Head sand dune system along the Northumberland Strait in Canada, Anna Leigh Clem infuses her eerie landscape with somber drama. Toning her works with foraged botanicals, she creates a tangible connection between each print and the landscape that inspired it.
Brett Day Windham’s delicate watercolor overlays illuminate the unseen rhythms of marine life, rendering fan corals as intricate, arterial compositions that underscore the interconnectedness of all life and consciousness.
Offering an unobstructed glimpse into the unseen, Bryan Whitney unveils the skeletal elegance of flowers through striking cyanotype x-rays. These luminous blueprints expose the intricate structure and delicate beauty inherent in botanical forms.
Cynthia Katz constructs fragmented cyanotypes arranging prints on rectangular grids and diptychs populated by small yet impactful details. The works are a creative approach to abstraction and evoke the elusive nature of memory and dreams.
Julia Whitney Barnes creates lavish and meticulously detailed works on paper, blending watercolor, gouache, ink, and cyanotype. Her pieces, reminiscent of fairy tale sights and sacred geometry, highlight the inherent beauty of our world.
Sally Chapman‘s rhythmic still life compositions capture the diverse objects of our everyday surroundings, creating a unique taxonomy of the organic with the manufactured. Delicate, drawing-like gestures on pastel further swirl through her observations.
An eclectic representation of cyanotype-making, the artists featured in 𝙀𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝘽𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙨 explore ideas of visibility and transformation, utilizing cyanotype to reinterpret and reimagine natural and everyday subjects through their techniques.
Elemental Blues: Contemporary CyanotypesElemental Blues, featuring the works of Anna Leigh Clem, Brett Windham, Bryan Whitney, Cynthia Katz, Julia Whitney Barnes and Sally Chapman.
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