Ellen Carey & Tomas van Houtryve: Black and white, topographies
Galerie Miranda
As Paris eagerly awaits the reopening, on 8 December, of Notre Dame de Paris, Galerie Miranda is proud to present works by Tomas van Houtryve, one of only three photographers granted access to the building site since 2019. ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES CAREY, Ellen (represented by Galerie Miranda) Born in New York City in 1952, Ellen Carey is a contemporary of the “Pictures Generation” artistic movement and Buffalo’s avant-garde, alongside Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo. Artist–photographer and lens-based artist, university educator, independent scholar and guest curator, she is Associate Professor of Photography at the Hartford Art School - University of Hartford (Connecticut). As a visual artist, Carey disrupts collective histories of art and photography through a practice of abstraction that explores the structure and roots of non-color in monochrome black, white and grey while her color palette mirrors photographic color theory RGB=YMC as a conceptual point-of-departure, adding content to context in photography’s collective short histories in color. Rather than describe object-subject interrelations, her photographs double play between shadow and light explorations, often seen in her minimalist work in black and white, or through images in an endless kaleidoscopic array of multi- or monochromatic colours. Ellen Carey’s two solo exhibitions: Light Struck at Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock (England) which paralleled her Struck by Light solo at New Britain Museum of Art (www.nbmaa.org) in Connecticut; both extended for a full year (2023-2024), saw collectively 250,000 visitors. In Paris, her work was presented in two group exhibitions at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Épreuves de la Matière (2023-24) and Black & White: an aesthetic of photography (2023-24). In 2018, Ellen Carey was named by the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) as one of the top 100 women photographers worldwide under their Hundred Heroines platform (www.hundredheroines.org). Her unique and experimental images have been featured in over 70 solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions. VAN HOUTRYVE, Tomas (represented par baudoin lebon) Born in 1975 and of Belgian-American nationality, the artist Tomas van Houtryve initially studied philosophy at the University of Colorado. Known for his mastery of a wide range of photographic techniques, ranging from 19th-century wet collodion on glass plates to augmented reality and aerial drones, his work explores our relationship to identity, memory and power. Tomas van Houtryve's work has been presented around the world, notably at the baudoin lebon Gallery in Paris, the BOZAR Center for Fine Arts in Brussels, the International Center for Photography Museum in New York, the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin, at C/0 Berlin, the British Museum in London, the Fotografiska Center in Copenhagen and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. He has also received numerous awards; including the Roger Pic Prize, the CENTER Prize, the CatchLight/Pulitzer Fellowship, the Hasselblad Foundation Prize, the ICP Infinity Prize. Author of several works (Behind the Curtains of 21st Century Communism, 2012; Lines and Lineages Radius Book (2019), Tomas van Houtryve regularly devotes time to education. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, he works in high schools and universities in California, Colorado, the District of Colombia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and France. Represented by the Baudoin Lebon gallery, he has been a member of the VII agency since 2010.
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