THE FOCUS

Rachel Bubis: Your work explores the nature of photography as a medium, specifically, its  “failure due to an inherent nostalgia.” Can you talk more about this? Sarah Phyllis Smith: At the heart of it I think I’m interested in our relationship to photographic images, and that’s mostly in reference to personal photographs. Why do we feel compelled to take the photos that we do and what happens in us that makes us reach for our cameras and decide t...

My paintings are constructed using thick sheets of acrylic paint that I cut and arrange on canvas. Eric Cagley, Studio Visit, March 2017 Eric Cagley, Studio Visit, March 2017 Eric Cagley, Studio Visit, March 2017 The visual language of sports has heavily influenced my work: white lines on a field, patterns cut into the grass, and the uniforms/colors of my favorite teams can often be found in my work. - Eric Cagley, 2017 Eric Cagley, Studio Visit, March 2017 Eric Cagley, Studio Visit, March 2017...

McLean Fahnestock: I wanted to talk to you because I am really interested in your work. I work a lot with appropriated images and I was struck by the surveillance images that you have been using for a long time now, in the different photographic processes, and how that has evolved over the past 15 years. You began manipulating images of airplanes in C-prints to now you are creating digitally manipulated patterns -- I don’t know if you call them co...