Category: Theory: landscape

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items noted– an artist speaking about impulse. And, to those who are not a participant in current communities conversation, they don’t recognize her Art references. Her practice references, note how smoothly she uses them; how thoroughly she has absorbed that dictionary.

Paloma Dooley.  (b. 1993, New York, NY) lives and works in Los Angeles. a BA in photography from Bard College. In 2016, she completed a monthlong residency at the Vermont Studio Center. recently completed a four-month residency at Quinn Emanuel Artists in Residence. She is a recipient of a 2024 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant. About is brief, unlike her image making method.

“I was born and raised in New York. I spent an influential and magical year of my youth in Roswell, NM, which instilled in me a love of the landscape and being on the road. As a teen, I turned to photography as an outlet for longing, searching, and wonder after losing my dad, who was an artist. I photographed his studio and I photographed in the landscape as a way to work through grief. I attended Bard College and earned a B.A. in Photography in 2015; my thesis project was awarded the Stuart Strizler Levine Award. In 2016 I completed a monthlong residency at the Vermont Studio Center, where I gave an artist’s talk and slide lecture. My work was included in “Too Good to be Photographed,” ed. Paul Paper, a publication that investigates the strengths and failures of photography as a medium, in 2017. In 2018, I was commissioned to create a new body of work, “What it Feels Like to be a Beautiful Rectangle,” for “Augenblick Mal,” a Swiss publication. My recent project Ground Control and accompanying text was published in Carla Issue 21 in August 2020. I am also included in “Primal Sight,” 2021, a groundbreaking look at contemporary black and white photography edited by curator Efrem Zelony-Mindell. When I’m not focusing on my own photographic projects, I am working on the small artist-run exhibition space, Hermitage, that I co-founded in 2020.” – Paloma Dooley

PD: In 2020 my garden became my only creative outlet, and a source of peace and strength amidst the crushing uncertainty of the pandemic. I had lost my job in the art world and felt totally disconnected from photography. Working – and making my own work – was how I had always found my way through the world. Photography was my guide and a mode of exploration, but it didn’t feel available to me at the beginning of the pandemic. Feeling a dearth of change and growth in my own life, I set my camera aside and focused instead on the quick lives of my plants. Growth, abundance, decline, death – caring for my plants was a way to care for myself.

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looking back: 2016…

With images and texts by Michele Abeles, Takaaki Akaishi, Lotta Antonsson, Walead Beshty, Lucas Blalock,Andrey Bogush, Brian Bress, Bianca Brunner, Stefan Burger, Antoine Catala, Phil Chang, Talia Chetrit, Joshua Citarella, Sara Cwynar, Bryan Dooley, Jessica Eaton, Shannon Ebner, Marten Elder, Jason Evans,Sam Falls, Brendan Fowler, Victoria Fu,Daniel Gordon, Darren Harvey-Regan, Leslie Hewitt, Nancy de Holl, John Houck, Go Itami, Rachel de Joode, Farrah Karapetian, Matt Keegan, Annette Kelm, Soo Kim, Yuki Kimura, Josh Kline, Lucas Knipscher,Owen Kydd, Josh Kolbo, Taisuke Koyama,Nico Krebs and Taiyo Onorato, EladLassry, Brandon Lattu, John Lehr, Anthony Lepore, Alexandra Leykauf, Matt Lipps, Florian Maier-Aichen, Phillip Maisel, Annie MacDonell, Emmeline de Mooij, Carter Mull, Nerhol – (Ryuta Iida and YoshihisaTanaka), Katja Novitskova, Arthur Ou, Matthew Porter, Timur Si-Qin, Eileen Quinlan, Jon Rafman, Sean Raspet, Clunie Reid, Abigail Reynolds, Will Rogan, Asha Schechter, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Shirana Shahbazi, Daniel Shea, Erin Shirreff, Elisa Sighicelli, Brea Souders, Kate Steciw, BatiaSuter, Yosuke Takeda, Miguel Ángel Tornero,Sara VanDerBeek, Artie Vierkant, Anne deVries, Hannah Whitaker, Charlie White, Lindsey White, Chris Wiley, Letha Wilson, and Amir Zaki. – See more at: http://aperture.org/shop/photography-is-magic-3229/#sthash.ydUkCFM5.dpuf

adding the anti-pose of https://americansuburbx.com/2015/10/photography-is-not-magic-photographic-images-and-their-digital-spirit.html

Oct23 ongoing Picture

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picture post, continuing. Abstraction has limits. Not as final as conceptual work, but there is little midgame work to be accomplished – certainly not with photographs. Realism has a silencing effect.

These ongoing, table edits include originals from prior posts. These are reminiscences of portfolio items I called Original In Color (’60s). These pictues are current.

One Picture More

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Making across picture manners. consider this a continuation of my recent “Picture Post” .. the images in that, with this additional, are from the same situation, bounded by the same initial consideration. My prompt was the same. In that PP, I consider only the first points of making a picture. Often, that is enough. The first place is the last place.

Subjects have powers — these come from their prior treatment, by the naive consumer, the amateur producer and the needs of the driven “by any other means.”

conceptual work has no shadow; is without dimension.

These are two variations on simple structural relations. This [oct22,23] is a first rendering. Rather than make added posts, I will add to this post.

[this method has become my revised mode of postings … add to existing. ]

I won’t be writing about the “how” they are done… I am reminded of a conversation with John Orentlicher: my position on answering didn’t go well for my time at EXS. [To John Orentlicher ( or liquor) because it makes it more powerful to me and I have no interest in translating them; spending my life as a translator of rather than an author of. My first react comment to him was: That’s a question I’d expect of a student, not the head of the department. — I didn’t make tenure track… and so it goes.]

Added Monday Oct 24–> heading along the edges