Suggested Donation: Lyndsy Welgos at Rawson Projects

Last weekend, our friend and former OC photographer Lyndsy Welgos opened her second solo show at Rawson Projects in Greenpoint. The opening night crowd was so loud you could hear it from halfway down Franklin Street, but the photo prints on show managed to shut us all up. Lyndsy's new pieces are hypnotic—in part because it's not immediately clear how they were made. Ranging from elongated panels of soft grey gradients to composite images of statues on collaged backgrounds, the works make you feel as if you're lost in the Metropolitan Museum's site back-end—which is in fact where Lyndsy found her quoted images. Floating in a sea of subtly shaded pixels, the classical sculptures are removed from their natural context, and, without any identifying wall plaques, raise questions about digital imagery's ability to manipulate, reappropriate, and disorientate. Of course, that's not unique to digital art. As Lyndsy said, "I think most artistic practice is layer on layer, like Photoshop."

Through March 24, 2013 | Images courtesy of Lydsy Welgos

RAWSON PROJECTS
223 Franklin Street
Brooklyn, NY
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Chris, James, and Lyndsy. Photo by Ara Anjargolian
 

 

 



 
Spilling Circles


Michael and Lyndsy. Photos by Ara Anjargolian




Lyndsy and Mari