{"id":17217,"date":"2014-01-31T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=17217"},"modified":"2014-01-30T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T03:33:09","slug":"new-exhibit-at-apsu-showcases-antiquated-photography-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2014\/01\/31\/new-exhibit-at-apsu-showcases-antiquated-photography-process\/","title":{"rendered":"New exhibit at APSU showcases antiquated photography process"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN <\/strong>– The photographs in Frances Scully Osterman\u2019s new exhibit, \u201cNature\u2019s Second Course,\u201d straddle the line between the macabre and the sensual.<\/p>\n

The images show people sleeping, but they were created using the antiquated wet-collodion photography process, giving the black and white photos a ghostly quality.<\/p>\n

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Light Pours In<\/p><\/div>\n

According to a review of Osterman\u2019s work in The Village Voice, \u201cThese photos of people sleeping in luxuriously disheveled sheets are so intimate and sexy you might feel like a Peeping Tom at the bedroom window. But Osterman also captures a hushed stillness and utter release that suggest a more final rest, and some of her most striking images could be deathbed portraits.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibit, which feature 24 small and large scale photographs from Scully Osterman’s recent series \u201cBeds\u201d and \u201cSleep,\u201d opens February 3rd at the Austin Peay State University Trahern Gallery and runs through March 7th.<\/p>\n

A closing reception will take place from 5:00pm-7:00pm on March 4th, followed by a 7:00pm lecture by the artist in Trahern, room 401.<\/p>\n

Scully Osterman is an artist-educator, a lecturer at the Scully & Osterman Studio and a guest scholar at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY. She is also a leading practitioner of the wet-collodion process, which can result in chocolate-toned prints on waxed salt paper.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, why use collodion?\u201d she asked recently. \u201cEverything about the negatives and prints is visual. I make my negatives from scratch, beginning with a plain sheet of glass. The resulting salt print in the \u2018Sleep\u2019 series is also coated by hand. Then I coat each with wax. Every part of the experience is visual. Making them is sensual and so are the results. As an artist, I find that very seductive.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on this exhibition, which is free and open to the public, contact Paul Collins, APSU assistant professor of art and gallery director, at collinsp@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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