Exhibitions

WISH BOOK: LAY OF THE LAND

Crosstown Arts / 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280 September 21, 2018 - December 2, 2018

John Pearson

Curated by Terri Phillips and Brian Pera

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These large-scale, landscape cyanotypes on fabric link the tactile and the visual by committing the photographic process to the physical landscape. Pearson works outdoors on the ground, making 1:1 indexical photographic prints during midday sunlight. In these photographs, view is replaced by elemental record; while the horizon, removed from the composition, becomes the topographic support and source for construction of the images.

Pearson’s intention is not to convey the solely visual appearance of place — in this case, the arid southern California landscape — but rather to invoke a more dynamic experience of place by means of the transformative nature of photography.