Tamar Halpern
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Tamar Halpern's practice goes beyond a conventional definition of photography. Her large-scale, unique works on photographic paper combine both digital and analog processes with painting and printmaking techniques. In the manner of Japanese Provoke Photographers, Halpern's approach is purely subjective, eschewing technical mastery in favor of expression, texture, and rough and blurred passages. Though the original photograph is of her own taking, the image is not being called into service to document the external world. Halpern's practice is both additive and subtractive, and incorporates analogue and digital cameras, computers, darkroom, scanners, photocopiers, silkscreen, and inkjet printers. Employing Ultrachrome inks and working with a 17-inch wide printer, Halpern prints on 17-inch sections of photographic paper and then assembles the strips in two, three and four panel works. Original source images are put through an experimental and improvisational process that includes multiple passes through the printer, as well as applying inkjet inks directly with rollers, mops, pours and cardboard imprints. The resulting works, with their varying qualities of reproduction, differing sizes of photographic grain and surfaces layered with multiple applications of translucent inks, call into question what is printed and what is painted.
Recent solo exhibitions for Halpern include D'Amelio Gallery in …
Recent solo exhibitions for Halpern include D'Amelio Gallery in …
Tamar Halpern's practice goes beyond a conventional definition of photography. Her large-scale, unique works on photographic paper combine both digital and analog processes with painting and printmaking techniques. In the manner of Japanese Provoke Photographers, Halpern's approach is purely subjective, eschewing technical mastery in favor of expression, texture, and rough and blurred passages. Though the original photograph is of her own taking, the image is not being called into service to document the external world. Halpern's practice is both additive and subtractive, and incorporates analogue and digital cameras, computers, darkroom, scanners, photocopiers, silkscreen, and inkjet printers. Employing Ultrachrome inks and working with a 17-inch wide printer, Halpern prints on 17-inch sections of photographic paper and then assembles the strips in two, three and four panel works. Original source images are put through an experimental and improvisational process that includes multiple passes through the printer, as well as applying inkjet inks directly with rollers, mops, pours and cardboard imprints. The resulting works, with their varying qualities of reproduction, differing sizes of photographic grain and surfaces layered with multiple applications of translucent inks, call into question what is printed and what is painted.
Recent solo exhibitions for Halpern include D'Amelio Gallery in New York, Galeri Mana in Istanbul, and Office Baroque Gallery in Belgium. In November of 2012 the artist will have a one-person exhibition in Portugal. Halpern was a participant in the 2010 Greater New York at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; The Knight's Move, curated by Fionn Meade at the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York; Looking Back/The Fifth White Columns Annual, selected by Bob Nickas, White Columns, New York.
show more descriptionshow less descriptionRecent solo exhibitions for Halpern include D'Amelio Gallery in New York, Galeri Mana in Istanbul, and Office Baroque Gallery in Belgium. In November of 2012 the artist will have a one-person exhibition in Portugal. Halpern was a participant in the 2010 Greater New York at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; The Knight's Move, curated by Fionn Meade at the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York; Looking Back/The Fifth White Columns Annual, selected by Bob Nickas, White Columns, New York.
Born 1979
Hometown Los Angeles, CA
Lives and Works Brooklyn, NY
Education
MFA, Columbia University, New York, N Y, 2005
BFA, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 2003
BFA, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 2003
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