Jessica Eaton, cfaal 109, Archival Pigment Print, 2011.

 
An artist friend once told me that when you don’t know what you’ll get back, that’s when you know you’re finally onto something.

Jessica Eaton says she likes to make images that surprise her, and they certainly do to us as well.


Eaton is part of a cadre of young photographers who experiment with and exploit the technical effects of the photographic medium with ingenuity, daring, and delight. (For more, see The Contemporaries, including Matthew Brandt, Christopher Colville or Bryan Graf). Her images are not visible to the naked eye, but rather exist in the realm of the photographic, often created in camera with large format film. In her “Interpolation Dramatizations” and “RGB Weaves” works, she is similarly using analogue process to symbolize digital algorithms.

Eaton often takes several exposures at a time, rendering up colours, forms and effects unconnected to any solid object. She may not know exactly what she will get back till the photographs are actually developed. Perhaps her most-recognized series is “Cubes for Albers and LeWitt,” for which she utilizes multiple exposures of cubes to explore the layering and blending of primary colors.

Jessica Eaton, cfaal 260, Archival Pigment Print, 2012

WORDS BY: John D’Agostino

Jessica Eaton, cfaal 254, Archival Pigment Print, 2012.

Jessica Eaton is represented by M+B in Los Angeles and Higher Pictures in New York. Her website is:  www.jessicaeaton.com

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