https://rebeccanajdowski.com Rebecca Najdowski Tue, 02 Apr 2019 20:03:42 +0000 https://rebeccanajdowski.com en https://rebeccanajdowski.com/Interference-Pattern Tue, 02 Apr 2019 20:03:42 +0000 Rebecca Najdowski https://rebeccanajdowski.com/Interference-Pattern Interference Pattern 2018 - ongoing | c-prints, digital pigment prints | dimensions variable Interference Pattern is a collaborative installation with artist Vivian Cooper Smith developed from a shared an interest in critiquing the ways photography constructs our perceptions of nature through the concept of landscape. The artworks are formed through studio and darkroom interventions in which photographic negatives are manipulated by acts of cutting, burning, tearing, stapling, folding and the incorporation of visual obstructions. The previously straightforward landscape imagery is thus incised with physical intrusions, complicating the scene with an additive-erasure. This process — that changes the material surface of photographs — draws attention to the notion of landscape as a cultural construct. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b075a86be8ff7d46e347ef2fbeb0dc865a99477f40769cb8333ed70099f3b8a6/ambient-pressure-12.jpg" data-mid="39109319" border="0" data-scale="84" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b075a86be8ff7d46e347ef2fbeb0dc865a99477f40769cb8333ed70099f3b8a6/ambient-pressure-12.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="1999" height="1333" width_o="1999" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93cf7f9b16ad4e4fbd886860011f3204b85e3b6a2d8d751e49eeda1358b00fd0/VCS_RN_InterferencePattern_MG_8283.jpg" data-mid="39109323" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93cf7f9b16ad4e4fbd886860011f3204b85e3b6a2d8d751e49eeda1358b00fd0/VCS_RN_InterferencePattern_MG_8283.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cccd36a38037a52b71405aa93f485f31bd3a3d606e8c358e4776694c6ca3eb8/ambient-pressure-14.jpg" data-mid="39109321" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cccd36a38037a52b71405aa93f485f31bd3a3d606e8c358e4776694c6ca3eb8/ambient-pressure-14.jpg" /> <img width="1999" height="1333" width_o="1999" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed87442e14eace1ff58d373929d5ca67d161cd29f326f987a2c4a330f33ba6ac/VCS_RN_InterferencePattern_MG_8339.jpg" data-mid="39109327" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed87442e14eace1ff58d373929d5ca67d161cd29f326f987a2c4a330f33ba6ac/VCS_RN_InterferencePattern_MG_8339.jpg" /> As a collaborative installation the arrangement is free-form with some prints overlapping, some pinned loosely. This technique foregrounds the material qualities of the paper and accentuates the shadows made against the wall and other works. Gels are placed across the lights to create numerous coloured shadows at the edges of each print. The colour of the gels are chosen so that their combined effect is a neutral white light – red/green/blue and cyan/ magenta/yellow. In the installation, the layering, curling, and folding of the prints create obstructions for the light waves. Shadows emerge as multilayered colours. The project is informed by the scientific feminism of Karen Barad, whose diffractive methodology measures ‘interference patterns’ - the effects of difference rather than the differences themselves. Like intersecting ripples made by two rocks thrown into a pond, these differences interact - some intensifying and some negating the other. The installation operates as an interference pattern, it maps the effects of two artists working in complementary and contrasting ways and opens up possibilities for new materialist pathways through photography. <img width="1713" height="2000" width_o="1713" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/468250b4d80198dd87a954ab4debb2dcb92e98ad5c7d6ef87f7f44518efa2c76/ambient-pressure-8.jpg" data-mid="39109318" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/468250b4d80198dd87a954ab4debb2dcb92e98ad5c7d6ef87f7f44518efa2c76/ambient-pressure-8.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1667" width_o="2000" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7186807f068666c7d725babc63d621dfc0e87ef49a19c22104be143a0b4272e0/ambient-pressure-4.jpg" data-mid="39109316" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7186807f068666c7d725babc63d621dfc0e87ef49a19c22104be143a0b4272e0/ambient-pressure-4.jpg" /> <img width="1999" height="1333" width_o="1999" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd9c7abdc40ed809c75a9ab26a4bacaa44bfc83efe35f9eab95f14e3a405ae06/VCS_RN_InterferencePattern_MG_8314.jpg" data-mid="39109325" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd9c7abdc40ed809c75a9ab26a4bacaa44bfc83efe35f9eab95f14e3a405ae06/VCS_RN_InterferencePattern_MG_8314.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4f06789e596b8051c0ae892cf5432eb95593345c4f474b0c932353cd9729e6a/ambient-pressure-13.jpg" data-mid="39109320" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4f06789e596b8051c0ae892cf5432eb95593345c4f474b0c932353cd9729e6a/ambient-pressure-13.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1600" width_o="2000" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce23b4d27cc9f8eaa16e1eed657db9cd9bb41336dbcc535e48b8571e9a65ba27/ambient-pressure-19.jpg" data-mid="39109322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce23b4d27cc9f8eaa16e1eed657db9cd9bb41336dbcc535e48b8571e9a65ba27/ambient-pressure-19.jpg" /> https://rebeccanajdowski.com/curatorial-project-A-Field-Guide-to-the-Stars Sun, 11 Feb 2018 03:11:51 +0000 Rebecca Najdowski https://rebeccanajdowski.com/curatorial-project-A-Field-Guide-to-the-Stars A Field Guide to the Stars2017 | curatorial project | exhibition at the Ballarat astronomical observatory | part of the core program of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Australia How do humans understand and imagine outer space? What technologies have shaped and expanded these perceptions of scale, distance and time? A Field Guide to the Stars pairs artworks and archival materials to explore how photography and related media operate within our shifting awareness of the cosmos. Photography and astronomy have an intrinsic relationship, evidenced by technical advances and the collective imagination of space. For instance, photographs of the moon’s surface, including those in this exhibition from Lunar Orbiter V (1967), were crucial to making the 1969 moon landing possible. Whereas widely circulated and aesthetically compelling images of space, like nebulae captured from the Hubble Space Telescope, elicit curiosity and wonder in non-scientists. Astronomical observatories and archives bring together scientific evidence and the fanciful unknown, making them sites of discovery that hold cultural, historical, and symbolic weight. As a collection of astronomical photography and historical, scientific ephemera combined with contemporary photo-artistic practices, A Field Guide to the Stars explores the human impulse to orientate ourselves within the expanding universe. participating artists: Clare BensonAlex CherneyKate Golding Kate RobertsonHillary WiedmannEric William CarrollRebecca Najdowski download PDF of catalog - includes essay by Colin Edgington <img width="2000" height="940" width_o="2000" height_o="940" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf91283cabbb6a0e2e746519b795bb03bda3c7a41448153f1089e90572086f2e/a-field-guide-to-the-stars.png" data-mid="11045440" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf91283cabbb6a0e2e746519b795bb03bda3c7a41448153f1089e90572086f2e/a-field-guide-to-the-stars.png" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" 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https://rebeccanajdowski.com/Black-Sun <img width="1617" height="2000" width_o="1617" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d13109e299c379e51cdff0f1669cf20570e33b31cbe913a29e47eb7c4246716/najdowski_black-sun-5.jpg" data-mid="11044012" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d13109e299c379e51cdff0f1669cf20570e33b31cbe913a29e47eb7c4246716/najdowski_black-sun-5.jpg" />Black Sun 2010 | c-print photograms, digital video, and acrylic mirror and electroluminescent wire sculpture Black Sun includes digital videos, large-scale c-print photograms, and a mirrored light sculpture. The exhibition centres on the connection between time, the desert, abstraction, and wonderment. Combining stop-motion animation, time-lapse, and altered found footage the video series references New Age practices and plays with the coherence of time and perception through home-spun illusions and layering. Imagery in the series is dominated by the desert, representing a liminal space as it is one of nothingness and also inherent possibility. The lumiograms and photograms reflect photography’s history and materiality and consider what an alternative vision of photography can be. A productive uncertainty occurs in the darkroom as various enlarger filter combinations and unwieldy light sources create abstract forms. The result are metallic and glossy images that function as alternative moments that may have been in the video. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/326fec6542af4b670035c440eb6cefc06d1252b6f67ffa90b6fbba5c70df5766/najdowski_black-sun-6.jpg" data-mid="11044013" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/326fec6542af4b670035c440eb6cefc06d1252b6f67ffa90b6fbba5c70df5766/najdowski_black-sun-6.jpg" /> <img width="768" height="1015" width_o="768" height_o="1015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d51e3415eb04f6a4658462c500d2ebd56bcb9b27eae79dd876a616d036bce3d/najdowski_black-sun-1.jpg" data-mid="11044008" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/8d51e3415eb04f6a4658462c500d2ebd56bcb9b27eae79dd876a616d036bce3d/najdowski_black-sun-1.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1658" width_o="2000" height_o="1658" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0d17c11c68bcdc3c268ed45a31f64016633058b767c60009beaf95ddb90154d/najdowski_black-sun-15.jpg" data-mid="11044021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0d17c11c68bcdc3c268ed45a31f64016633058b767c60009beaf95ddb90154d/najdowski_black-sun-15.jpg" /> <img width="1492" height="2000" width_o="1492" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/90f5d52cd101b89f8cfe2e3301ddc99d04fd86da5d89967de6690e1cd4228292/najdowski_black-sun-13.jpg" data-mid="11044019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/90f5d52cd101b89f8cfe2e3301ddc99d04fd86da5d89967de6690e1cd4228292/najdowski_black-sun-13.jpg" /> <img width="1666" height="2000" width_o="1666" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5b30e31e6c6b7d6cf6a6549ec6f18564d0e204173ab066efac32ad3e861b13a/najdowski_black-sun-9.jpg" data-mid="11044016" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5b30e31e6c6b7d6cf6a6549ec6f18564d0e204173ab066efac32ad3e861b13a/najdowski_black-sun-9.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1508" width_o="2000" height_o="1508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b43a76dc6691e0cc8ef658891bf054706d5c8ae6b832feee19f851da6c651a3b/najdowski_black-sun-2.jpg" data-mid="11044009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b43a76dc6691e0cc8ef658891bf054706d5c8ae6b832feee19f851da6c651a3b/najdowski_black-sun-2.jpg" /> <img width="1635" height="2000" width_o="1635" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2f9fa5f5174f68d339a6e6f4a4fc12d3b125bc63849c3d1a0935ae1d28296cd/najdowski_black-sun-4.jpg" data-mid="11044011" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2f9fa5f5174f68d339a6e6f4a4fc12d3b125bc63849c3d1a0935ae1d28296cd/najdowski_black-sun-4.jpg" /> <img width="1656" height="2000" width_o="1656" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eeb7b5d7b27edc92838ff4450aabe7333bffe679f87b3c4b2a56fe57a3c32a84/najdowski_black-sun-3.jpg" data-mid="11044010" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eeb7b5d7b27edc92838ff4450aabe7333bffe679f87b3c4b2a56fe57a3c32a84/najdowski_black-sun-3.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1667" width_o="2000" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1444daa174a0bca44861bc412e801dd2a1d053e396483587028031d5fee49770/najdowski_black-sun-12.jpg" data-mid="11044018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1444daa174a0bca44861bc412e801dd2a1d053e396483587028031d5fee49770/najdowski_black-sun-12.jpg" /> Infinity Box #2 is a collaboration between the artist and her father. The sculpture is an updated version of a primary school science fair project that they both worked on. The original consisted of a shoe box, mirror, and a strand of lights and has since been lost. A preoccupation with the youthful curiosity and wonderment that it represented led to the development of a second version of the sculpture where the viewer looks through a hole at the top of the box revealing their eye peering back at them, surrounded by a psychedelic display of infinite electroluminescent lights. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d02f0fc9fc1afd44bf49a85af74fc5c33098a78e8c48d22bdeddf26755f8a9b4/najdowski_black-sun-8.jpg" data-mid="11044015" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d02f0fc9fc1afd44bf49a85af74fc5c33098a78e8c48d22bdeddf26755f8a9b4/najdowski_black-sun-8.jpg" /> https://rebeccanajdowski.com/Octahedron Tue, 05 Dec 2017 01:40:41 +0000 Rebecca Najdowski https://rebeccanajdowski.com/Octahedron <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca5b1343c6393768c87a5861a562af09183de09f1ee5919decd4d326b8ca99eb/najdowski_octahedron-5.jpg" data-mid="7620368" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca5b1343c6393768c87a5861a562af09183de09f1ee5919decd4d326b8ca99eb/najdowski_octahedron-5.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b85adc9c051163cbf462a88b7bd7289a700eec098387277ae0d96f03395ac97c/najdowski_octahedron-1.jpg" data-mid="7620364" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b85adc9c051163cbf462a88b7bd7289a700eec098387277ae0d96f03395ac97c/najdowski_octahedron-1.jpg" />Octahedron 2012 | documentation of an augmented reality intervention at White Sands, New Mexico, US. Octahedron is a collaborative project with designer Steve Pacheco. An Augmented Reality (AR) art intervention, it creates an interplay between dimensions of the visible and invisible through geo-positioned digital layers within the landscape of White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. AR technology uses a special browser on smartphones and tablets that allows the device to “see” previously invisible digital layers, it conjures up additional, floating objects within a real space. Using Annie Bessant and CW Leadbeater’s 1901 publication “Thought-forms” as a starting point, the project explores their notion that conscious energy can manifest in a 3-D form. The aim is that an encounter with the intervention will blur the distinction between visible/invisible, past/future, object/experience, and thought/form. <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b7888a02472bb9796ba49771c85ca4f2b380eb3aabba864ffd3db77b4579bf7/najdowski_octahedron-12.jpg" data-mid="7620376" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b7888a02472bb9796ba49771c85ca4f2b380eb3aabba864ffd3db77b4579bf7/najdowski_octahedron-12.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="2000" width_o="1500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/099357af24a6bc69ae768f968a0d66232b47d6a7b8c532f64170a826e65667ef/najdowski_octahedron-10.jpg" data-mid="7620374" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/099357af24a6bc69ae768f968a0d66232b47d6a7b8c532f64170a826e65667ef/najdowski_octahedron-10.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9a38b07ef68c1ba6bab5690958a7786a9b371501024b5bbdd6926aaaa823e8f/najdowski_octahedron-16.jpg" data-mid="7620380" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9a38b07ef68c1ba6bab5690958a7786a9b371501024b5bbdd6926aaaa823e8f/najdowski_octahedron-16.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a08d2408c50b7a9b7529dcdc4f38430f562060b7f68437c8b06043335f93ab5a/najdowski_octahedron-2.jpg" data-mid="7620365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a08d2408c50b7a9b7529dcdc4f38430f562060b7f68437c8b06043335f93ab5a/najdowski_octahedron-2.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d40f224cff21756c4b4cd3cbdb5565c9707d793a06d9e93332679d7c507bbcb/najdowski_octahedron-14.jpg" data-mid="7620378" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d40f224cff21756c4b4cd3cbdb5565c9707d793a06d9e93332679d7c507bbcb/najdowski_octahedron-14.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="2000" width_o="1500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66c899b535146cc91a25c7bff1ea37902ec3e8661d72d58c586a6a00f732c7b5/najdowski_octahedron-17.jpg" data-mid="7620381" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66c899b535146cc91a25c7bff1ea37902ec3e8661d72d58c586a6a00f732c7b5/najdowski_octahedron-17.jpg" /> https://rebeccanajdowski.com/Above-Below Tue, 05 Dec 2017 01:21:28 +0000 Rebecca Najdowski https://rebeccanajdowski.com/Above-Below Above / Below 2013 | light installation Above/Below is a primitive planetarium that shifts with the presence of the audience Viewer’s shadows and projected light collide to create a mutable space. The installation consists of six overhead projectors on the floor of a darkened room. On each sits a sheet of aluminum foil with hundreds of tiny holes. These function as apertures, projecting light passing through to create an array of ‘stars’ on the ceiling and walls. Above/Below references both the prehistoric conception of stars as punctures in the mythological fabric of a night sky as well as the camera obscura, a darkened room in which the ‘outside’ is revealed on the interior walls. <img width="2250" height="1500" width_o="2250" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7194a4005c0987bccc028b1518af007f929c04237b10e60d26f94cc50b5b7a94/najdowski_above-below-5.jpg" data-mid="7619701" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7194a4005c0987bccc028b1518af007f929c04237b10e60d26f94cc50b5b7a94/najdowski_above-below-5.jpg" /> <img width="2250" height="1500" width_o="2250" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d91281a803c867451fc2a1b48809e66cb286cb36fa9379971662b37376ff862/najdowski_above-below-2.jpg" data-mid="7619698" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d91281a803c867451fc2a1b48809e66cb286cb36fa9379971662b37376ff862/najdowski_above-below-2.jpg" /> <img width="1278" height="1284" width_o="1278" height_o="1284" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9280cb781b912a15b104874e4736485fcf5eb7132b95784fe5d3354e826673ce/najdowski_above-below-1.jpg" data-mid="7619697" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9280cb781b912a15b104874e4736485fcf5eb7132b95784fe5d3354e826673ce/najdowski_above-below-1.jpg" /> <img width="2250" height="1500" width_o="2250" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5660a2676618c5a916dd859e082b90c5121d81751b57d0bb8e160859daf68c3c/najdowski_above-below-3.jpg" data-mid="7619699" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5660a2676618c5a916dd859e082b90c5121d81751b57d0bb8e160859daf68c3c/najdowski_above-below-3.jpg" /> https://rebeccanajdowski.com/art-writing Tue, 05 Dec 2017 00:22:07 +0000 Rebecca Najdowski https://rebeccanajdowski.com/art-writing Amateur Photography Gets a Fresh Look from Erik Kessels in “Secondhand”, KQED.org, 01/08/2015 More Real?: False Realities at SITE Santa Fe, DailyServing.com, 07/19/2012 Agitated Histories, DailyServing.com 12/20/2011 Anthony McCall at Luciana Brito, São Paulo, DailyServing.com, 05/17/2011 Architecture of Visibility - Cinthia Marcelle and Nicolás Robbio, DailyServing.com, 04/26/2011 Interview with Amilcar Packer, DailyServing.com, 02/21/2011 Portable Landscapes - Recibo, DailyServing.com, 01/19/2011 Geometria Impura, DailyServing.com, 12/21/2010 Rodrigo Matheus, DailyServing.com and ArtPractical.com, 11/24/2010 Jean-Pascal Flavien, DailyServing.com, 10/25/2010 There is Always a Cup of Sea to Sail In: São Paulo Bienal, DailyServing.com &amp; DaWire.com, 10/06/2010 https://rebeccanajdowski.com/Give-Them-Distance Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:38:41 +0000 Rebecca Najdowski https://rebeccanajdowski.com/Give-Them-Distance Give Them Distance 2017 | digital video and acrylic mirror, wood, and photograph on wallpaper sculptures Give Them Distance explores how we comprehend the cosmos and our place within it. Created from hundreds of slides discarded by a university Earth and Planetary Science department, the looped video animates a journey from Earth, through the solar system and space, returning to our planet via fallen meteorites. Juxtaposed with the cycling slide images, droning and degraded audio captured from Walt Disney’s 1979 super-8 sci-fi film “The Black Hole” provides a hypnotic rhythm. Give them Distance considers the idea that we have come to know the collectively-imagined cosmos through photomedia and sci-fi films. In this piece, outmoded visual and audio representations of earth and space reveal a cultural and material patina. The video, through its coupling of an unavoidable wearing down with cosmic expanse, attempts to point to the paradoxical coexistence of entropy and the infinite. 01:00 min preview of&nbsp;03:05&nbsp;min video. <img width="1340" height="2000" width_o="1340" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/113bb2788e2716983ef7ec1c9ac2720869aa612fa5c4eac17d30a221a5c3bfe0/GTD-1.jpg" data-mid="7616326" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/113bb2788e2716983ef7ec1c9ac2720869aa612fa5c4eac17d30a221a5c3bfe0/GTD-1.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/519de4142a3b0207826dd372bcf4b2e4f0dbe5ab96d64f4838345336937a67c0/GTD-8.jpg" data-mid="7616333" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/519de4142a3b0207826dd372bcf4b2e4f0dbe5ab96d64f4838345336937a67c0/GTD-8.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06a6a395b0dbee52a899340cfff405ab82bc0e039cf4862c3d57429490ef481b/GTD-3.jpg" data-mid="7616328" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06a6a395b0dbee52a899340cfff405ab82bc0e039cf4862c3d57429490ef481b/GTD-3.jpg" /> <img width="1334" height="2000" width_o="1334" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef05017f9464ba6dbfc8e7d3226c2ca24f4ddaf856fb5fa7deb94f2f64d9dec9/GTD-5.jpg" data-mid="7616330" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef05017f9464ba6dbfc8e7d3226c2ca24f4ddaf856fb5fa7deb94f2f64d9dec9/GTD-5.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9a12a2c18fab315558eae8dc755aba99f6b8964feec0c51be54388b6dd48601/GTD-6.jpg" data-mid="7616331" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9a12a2c18fab315558eae8dc755aba99f6b8964feec0c51be54388b6dd48601/GTD-6.jpg" /> https://rebeccanajdowski.com/Desert-Pictures Sun, 26 Nov 2017 06:47:55 +0000 Rebecca Najdowski https://rebeccanajdowski.com/Desert-Pictures Desert Pictures 2014 | c-print photograms, digital video, gelatin silver solar prints, acrylic and light sculpture <img width="1666" height="2000" width_o="1666" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48e2c41f711b6f5c44318cddf1332eaf2258dc7f96cbc79eb68dbf31bb4dd447/najdowski_desert-pictures-3.jpg" data-mid="7615971" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48e2c41f711b6f5c44318cddf1332eaf2258dc7f96cbc79eb68dbf31bb4dd447/najdowski_desert-pictures-3.jpg" /> Desert Pictures explores the notion of landscape through a series of images, objects and photo-driven experiments. Informed by a lifetime of adventures in the deserts of the Southwestern United States, this work considers how desert environments are imaged and framed: can the spatial, perceptual, temporal, biological, and chemical of a place be embodied photographically? By focusing on optics, light, minerals, surface, time, and chemical and digital interactions this project incorporates these essential components of photography and video-imaging in order to reveal the conditions of representation. Desert Pictures was made in collaboration with the desert environment using minerals, rain, and the sun. A variety of approaches explore the materiality of analogue and digital media to suggest alternative ways to represent the multifaceted aspects of an environment, expanding the representation of environment far beyond the traditions of pictorial landscape photography. Desert Pictures was developed during a fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography and works from this series are now part of their permanent collection. <img width="1667" height="2000" width_o="1667" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad5bba05eb91b69b50b9489c9e7a4f53b3f0061022c7f9715263c2c08cc4af9f/najdowski_desert-pictures-10.jpg" data-mid="7615995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad5bba05eb91b69b50b9489c9e7a4f53b3f0061022c7f9715263c2c08cc4af9f/najdowski_desert-pictures-10.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1667" width_o="2000" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08d3e1b2d97037a79ee6d0585c00d8b4fead944016a34bf3809df35db6e2a0a6/najdowski_desert-pictures-8.jpg" data-mid="7615993" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08d3e1b2d97037a79ee6d0585c00d8b4fead944016a34bf3809df35db6e2a0a6/najdowski_desert-pictures-8.jpg" /> <img width="1667" height="2000" width_o="1667" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87495368ed39ecadb0dc863cc7eee8f79a7f280aaf78e81815a8c9aaaef80b61/najdowski_desert-pictures-11.jpg" data-mid="7615996" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87495368ed39ecadb0dc863cc7eee8f79a7f280aaf78e81815a8c9aaaef80b61/najdowski_desert-pictures-11.jpg" /> <img width="1661" height="2000" width_o="1661" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de9aa3b5836f33fcee3f866915cf098c237638a34de2f7b68a59bb6f6ac157bd/najdowski_desert-pictures-9.jpg" data-mid="7615994" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de9aa3b5836f33fcee3f866915cf098c237638a34de2f7b68a59bb6f6ac157bd/najdowski_desert-pictures-9.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1667" width_o="2000" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b40a2521caff2b3d268569866c5d75682f2e8dfa7f184e656ee9db1e4e2372af/najdowski_desert-pictures-1.jpg" data-mid="7615967" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b40a2521caff2b3d268569866c5d75682f2e8dfa7f184e656ee9db1e4e2372af/najdowski_desert-pictures-1.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1199" width_o="2000" height_o="1199" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7577d0be5590f2bc6a52d656c169f093b0fa85887a800aa36480ca71cd3a6024/najdowski_desert-pictures-20.jpg" data-mid="7616012" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7577d0be5590f2bc6a52d656c169f093b0fa85887a800aa36480ca71cd3a6024/najdowski_desert-pictures-20.jpg" /> The video untitled (sun) engages with the idea of landscape representation through unconventional manipulations of imaging media. In the mid-day brightness of Northern Mexico, a digital camera was pointed directly at the sun, purposely causing overexposure of the image’s individual pixels. The chromatic aberrations caused by the malfunction of the camera’s sensor reveal the aesthetic possibilities of failure, depicting the sun as an ever-changing column of light, fringed with green and purple radiations. This sensor ‘bloom’ transforms the image of the sun while exposing the medium’s limits of representation. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/251d252ac1d706b661b1351821f9380fbda973563ba7cfc02457ab1c7ea3bf8f/najdowski_desert-pictures-22.jpg" data-mid="7616027" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/251d252ac1d706b661b1351821f9380fbda973563ba7cfc02457ab1c7ea3bf8f/najdowski_desert-pictures-22.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/295411039fe3afd77d0293e06714b2fe15f904fa74ec0f748e41dadf58a1c589/najdowski_desert-pictures-24.jpg" data-mid="7616037" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/295411039fe3afd77d0293e06714b2fe15f904fa74ec0f748e41dadf58a1c589/najdowski_desert-pictures-24.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5366815277765d878ef33875120ef2e15d10b0c1175d8f32f36446021b809bcd/najdowski_desert-pictures-27.jpg" data-mid="7616046" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5366815277765d878ef33875120ef2e15d10b0c1175d8f32f36446021b809bcd/najdowski_desert-pictures-27.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d17c9d245019d09490376ae1f0ab623745238ce02c0d09897dd6a1c78e417b8/najdowski_desert-pictures-23.jpg" data-mid="7616032" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d17c9d245019d09490376ae1f0ab623745238ce02c0d09897dd6a1c78e417b8/najdowski_desert-pictures-23.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1600" width_o="2000" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/671f2f2aaf33c37f68bf9ca487e1e912d80b4cfef747c94a7181aaf4c065ef5a/najdowski_desert-pictures-28.jpg" data-mid="7616047" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/671f2f2aaf33c37f68bf9ca487e1e912d80b4cfef747c94a7181aaf4c065ef5a/najdowski_desert-pictures-28.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="2000" width_o="1600" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/641cc59a979c7dd4c070f9243bd5ed619932876b1281189233bb063cae5abc55/najdowski_desert-pictures-26.jpg" data-mid="7616045" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/641cc59a979c7dd4c070f9243bd5ed619932876b1281189233bb063cae5abc55/najdowski_desert-pictures-26.jpg" /> <img width="1577" height="2000" width_o="1577" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f96f0a8d0125c5fe2883ba1f9b6b7e209ccb3ac7ed8ff884143f97408a693a3/najdowski_desert-pictures-33.jpg" data-mid="7616052" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f96f0a8d0125c5fe2883ba1f9b6b7e209ccb3ac7ed8ff884143f97408a693a3/najdowski_desert-pictures-33.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1600" width_o="2000" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2566d618264dd1e5c0c7a064469d0533faaa6535cf43b8fc612d36b30912183a/najdowski_desert-pictures-30.jpg" data-mid="7616049" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2566d618264dd1e5c0c7a064469d0533faaa6535cf43b8fc612d36b30912183a/najdowski_desert-pictures-30.jpg" /> https://rebeccanajdowski.com/CV Sun, 26 Nov 2017 06:09:49 +0000 Rebecca Najdowski https://rebeccanajdowski.com/CV &nbsp; 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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; downloadable PDF EDUCATION2016 commenced PhD, Visual Art Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne 2010 Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art California College of the Arts, San Francisco 2004 Bachelor of University Studies (magna cum laude), theme: “Cultural Studies and the Arts” University of New Mexico, Albuquerque SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018&nbsp;Interference Pattern, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham (two-person)2018&nbsp;Interference Pattern, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth (two-person) 2017Give Them Distance, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne 2014&nbsp;Desert Pictures, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2014 untitled (proposition), Steinfeld Warehouse, Tucson, AZ 2013&nbsp;Above/Below, S.H.E.D. Projects, Oakland, CA 2010&nbsp;Spectra, Hyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004&nbsp;Drift, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS 2019 Beyond Boundaries, Aperture Gallery, New York, NY 2018 New Psychedelics, Humble Arts Foundation NY, online The Family of No Man, Cosmos Arles Books, Arles, France I Can See for Miles, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 2017 A Field-Guide to the Stars, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat, Australia #postfuture journey / Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens International Airport, Greece FORMAT Festival: Habitat, Derby England 2016 Alien Terrain, Peephole Cinema, San Francisco, CA Victory, Gaffa Photo Festival, Gaffa, Sydney, Australia 2015 New Acquisitions, The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Talking to Strangers, Simultan, Timisoara, Romania Videograma: Territorio y Ciudad, UJTL, Bogota, and Barrio Granada, Cali, Colombia Digital Native Film Festival, The Front, New Orleans, LA Were the Eye Not Sunlike, ACRE TV, Chicago, IL Radical Color, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR 2014 Fauna, Smith Andersen North Gallery, San Anselmo, CA Night Contact, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, England Set in Motion: Video Art &amp; Experimental Film, Purdue University Fountain Gallery, Lafayette, IN Trestle Video Art Screening, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY X Media Art Monographic Show, Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia Black Noise, Podium Dolhuis, Dordrecht, Netherlands Return of the Winter Wrens, Nightingale Gallery, East Oregon University, La Grande, OR 2013 Crystal Palace, Center for the Digital Arts, SUNY Westchester Com College, Peekskill, NY Faculty Exhibition, University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ Wood Anniversary, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR Video Window, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Thinking Like the Universe, Hatch Gallery, Oakland, CA 2012 InLight, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA Crystal Palace, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT New Codes* / Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, Greece Kaleidoscope, ArtPadSF, Hungryman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011 Hypothesis, The Lab, San Francisco, CA ArtPadSF, Robert Berman Gallery / E6, San Francisco, CA 2010 Peripheral Vision, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA Golden State, RVCA, San Francisco, CA Everything Never Goes Away, Lost Coast Culture Machine, Ft. Bragg, CA MFA Thesis Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA Hearsay of the Sun, Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA Groundswell, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA CURATION 2019&nbsp;To The Moon and Back, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat, Australia forthcoming 2017&nbsp;A Field-Guide to the Stars, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat, Australia AWARDS / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS 2019 Banff Centre Artist Residency “Digital Promises”, Banff, Canada 2013-2015 Artist Fellow, The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ 2014 Artist Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2013 Artist Residency, Signal Fire, Montana 2013 Artist Residency, Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, New York 2012 Artist Residency, Signal Fire, Oregon 2010-2011 Fulbright Fellowship, Installation Art, Brazil 2010-2011 Artist Residency, CAPACETE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil BIBLIOGRAPHY 2019 Ambient Pressure,&nbsp;Cat Lachowskyj, LensCulture 2015 Meet the Contemporary Photographers Experimenting with ‘Radical Color’, Maddie Crum, The Huffington Post Electrifying Photograms Made from Desert Minerals, Flora, and Fauna, Ellyn Kail, Feature Shoot 2013 Signal Fire Heats of Artists’ Connection to Nature, “Wood Anniversary” review by John Motley, The Oregonian 2011 Photograms by Rebecca Najdowski, color reproductions, Juxtapoz Magazine online Moving Pictures: Rebecca Najdowski Reflects on Her Fulbright in Brazil, Simon Hodgson, California College of the Arts news &nbsp; &nbsp; 2010 Cameraless “pictures”, “Peripheral Vision” review by Kenneth Baker, SF Gate Illusive and Stunning, “Peripheral Vision” review by Parker Tilghman, Art Slant Kala Gallery’s Rising Tide, Groundswell review by DeWitt Cheng, East Bay Express Pay Attention, CCA MFA exhibition review by JD Beltrane, SF Gate COLLECTIONS The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ https://rebeccanajdowski.com/info Sun, 26 Nov 2017 04:40:38 +0000 Rebecca Najdowski https://rebeccanajdowski.com/info Bio Rebecca Najdowski is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice involves experimental photography, video, and augmented reality (AR) interventions as a way to explore the materiality of photomedia. She is interested in the complicated ways that perception of nature and the notion of landscape are entangled. With a focus on how photo images render representations of nature, she considers the ensuing implications of how we, as humans, comprehend the world around us. Much of her photomedia-driven artwork has experimented with its materiality by inviting natural elements — geothermal activity, the sun, time — to change the content and texture of the work. Rebecca’s images, objects, and films have been presented internationally, including Aperture Foundation in New York; FORMAT Festival in the United Kingdom; and Athens Digital Art Festival in Greece. She received an MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil. From 2013-2015 she was an Artist Fellow at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, where her work is now part of the collection. Rebecca has been an artist-in-residence at Banff Centre in Canada; the Institute for Electronic Art at Alfred University, New York; and at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California. She is a lecturer in Photography at RMIT University and is undertaking a PhD in Visual Art at Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) where her research is a critical and ongoing inquiry into how humans engage, relate to, and think of nature. © Rebecca Najdowski 2019 all rights reserved <img width="3264" height="2448" width_o="3264" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df959306be9216a0fd4a07b7298336a4a6e24b53468d7003a625d69c5b90e993/rebecca-making-solar-prints-1.JPG" data-mid="7618322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df959306be9216a0fd4a07b7298336a4a6e24b53468d7003a625d69c5b90e993/rebecca-making-solar-prints-1.JPG" /> contact studio@rebeccanajdowski.com instagram ︎ join mailing list&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;