Exhibition
Oct 30 - Dec 24, 2009

BARBARA BLONDEAU  Permutations

Barbara Blondeau, Untitled Panorama

  Untitled, Panorama 1968/1972   2 1/4 x 36 1/4" silver print


Barbara Blondeau: Permutations is a long-awaited sequel to our first Blondeau show in 1984, among the very first exhibitions held at Laurence Miller Gallery. Our first exhibition centered on her time/motion panoramic prints, which she made from 1968-1972. This was a series stimulated by an accident, when her camera’s shutter froze in the open position, and the resulting roll of exposed film produced one continuous negative. Barbara immediately began to explore the possiblities from this accident, and produced an important group of elongated prints in which the entire roll of film was treated as a single image. Encouraged by her close friend Ray Metzker, both graduates from the Institute of Design in Chicago, Barbara experimented with many techniques and approaches until her death from cancer in 1974.

Permutations will feature four series. Her 1968-72 time/motion panoramas; her gritty 1970 street scenes printed as large positive images on orthochromatic film, presented over silver and gold backgrounds; her experimental nude studies; and her "Black Border Series" from 1974 in which her awareness of her imminent death is inescapable. We are grateful to the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, which houses her archive, for making these duplicate prints available to the gallery and to our clients.

 Section 1 of 2  |  Section 2 of 2


(click image for detail view)


 Torso Multiple I, c.1967
8 x 10" silver print




Torsos I, c.1967
2
x 10" silver print

 

 

 



Torso Composite (detail), c.1967
10 1/2 x 10 1/2" silver print



Untitled, (torso montage), 1967
8 x 10" silver
print

 

Black Border Series (balloon), 1974
6 1/4
x 9 5/8" silver print

 

 

 



 
Black Border Series (boy), 1974
6 1/4
x 9 5/8" silver print

 

 



Black Border Series (dog), 1974
6 1/4
x 9 5/8" silver print

 

 

 

 


Black Border Series (shadows/road), 1974
6 1/4
x 9 5/8" silver print


 




Untitled
(World Playhouse I), c.1967
6 x 13" silver print

 




Untitled (World Playhouse II), c.1967
9 1/2 x 13" silver print

 

 

Untitled (montage), 1967
13 5/8 x 10 3/4" silver print

 

 

 


 

October 15, 1969
19 x 25 1/8" Ortho film


 

 

 
Untitled (child in blanket), 1969
25 1/8 x 19" Ortho film

 

 


 

Untitled (man in suit), 1969
19 x 25 1/8" Ortho film
 

Untitled (tuba), 1970
25 1/8 x 19" Ortho film

 


January 1, 1970
19 x 25 1/8" Ortho film

Untitled (vendor), 1970
25 1/8 x 19" Ortho film
 

 

 

 


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