The outer limits of what constitutes a photograph do not include spray paint on a spider’s web, unless its shape minicks a Polaroid gone to seed. By asserting itself outside the definition, Josh Tonsfeldt‘s web expands the category to include it.
Curated by Bob Nickas for Vancouver’s Presentation House Gallery, phot(o)objects made a seamless leap from nonprofit to commercial space, setting up shop at Lawrimore Project.
If the audience were frequently in motion from Portland to Seattle and Vancouver, a Seattle stop for a Vancouver exhibit wouldn’t make sense. Everyone inclined to see it would have.
Alas. Not the case. Determined not to wait for a bullet train, Scott Lawrimore is doing what he can to strengthen the links between cities that have everything in common except the reality of free exchange. Exhibits important in one city rarely register in another, which makes phot(o)object a welcome exception.
Jennifer Bolande transformed the mass-produced visible with a curtain that bears a photographic image and impersonates carved wood.
Wolfgang Tillmans inserts a false memory of a classic photography moment.
Twenty artists, not a dud in the group. Through Aug. 1.
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