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7/5/2010

Cynthia Greig

DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles

DNJ Gallery is pleased to announce Cynthia Greig as one of our new artists featured in an upcoming solo show in Gallery II. For her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Greig presents her body of photographs titled, ''Representations,'' exploring the concept of photographic truth and its correspondence to perceived reality. As a kind of playful homage to William Henry Fox Talbot's treatise, The Pencil of Nature, this series combines color photography, painting and drawing to create what the artist calls ''photographic documents of three-dimensional drawings.'' Everyday objects such as radios, telephones, coffee cups, and high-heeled shoes are whitewashed, outlined in charcoal pencil, and staged for the camera as deliberately as an old master trompe l'oeil. Remnants of the objects' original colors peek through the paint, and some areas are left bare for the photograph. Greig's whimsical works playfully teeter between drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography; she invites the viewer to consider photographic illusion and the true nature of the subject and the object.

Cynthia Greig lives and works in metropolitan Detroit. Since 1990, she has been making work that explores the exchange of influence between perception and experience, and the photograph's unique role in negotiating what we believe to be real or true. Her work been exhibited in museums and galleries both in the US and abroad including the HarvestWorks, The Alternative Museum and Camera Club of New York in NY, Rena Bransten Gallery and SFCamerawork in San Francisco, RedCat Theater in Los Angeles, Houston Center for Photography, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, UNO Art Space in Stuttgart and many others.

Opening 8 may

DNJ Gallery
154-1/2 N. La Brea Avenue - Los Angeles
Tuesday through Saturday 10:00am to 6:00pm

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