Elizabeth Bryant: LeWitt Still Lifes

In conjunction with FOTOFOCUS, the greater Cincinnati area’s month-long October celebration of photography, Carl Solway Gallery will feature photographic installations by noted Los Angeles artists, Elizabeth Bryant and Stephen Berens. Each created new work during the summer of 2010 while completing residencies in Sol LeWitt’s studio in Spoleto, Italy. This was LeWitt’s primary work space in Italy, left largely untouched since he died in 2007. Whereas the photographer Eadweard Muybridge influenced… Show more LeWitt’s artwork, LeWitt profoundly influenced that of Bryant and Berens.



In Sol LeWitt’s Spoleto living area, nine etchings by the Italian artist, Giorgio Morandi, engaged Bryant’s ongoing research into traditional still life painting. She created a series of ten still life photographs in five locations in the building; the vestibule, library, studio workspace, upstairs dinner table and a downstairs table. Incorporating LeWitt’s environment for backgrounds and using available light, she arranged fruits, vegetables and bottles. She sees the final images as a conversation across time between LeWitt, Morandi, and herself. At Carl Solway Gallery, her photographs will be shown with two etchings by Morandi.

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