100 Degrees
Summer 2024 Group Exhibition.
June-July

Reception: Friday June 21st 5-8PM

United Colors is excited to present a special exhibition featuring 6 rising talents from the midwest.

Words from Cesar Lopez on the sources of images.

100 Degrees explores the many potentials of photography based images with artists from the region. The artists are working across an expanded field of materials, subjects and methods. Works in the exhibition include photography based paintings, textiles with digital sourced imagery, constructed images, painted film stills and depictions of data.
Imagery and its sources are used together in a increasingly flexible method. In the works of Hugo Romero Zelada, images begin with the photograph and are mediated through laser etchings, mounted plexiglass and stretched canvas. Likewise Hung Le examines the flexible role of memory retained in photography from Vietnam. Like a river, the works and its sources flow downstream and at times upstream. Changing the course of the image, Samantha Haan takes information and converts it into an image displayed across a large painting. A second smaller pair of works that remind us of an early computer punch card. The earliest ways to manipulate numbers into images. The remaining images in the exhibition find themselves manipulated on the surface in the works of Lily Madden and Jackson Daughety. Images mediated through digital manipulation and software, to then be manipulated again by their printing on linen or home textiles like Madden’s tablecloths. Scenes flicker in and out of the rentable of the image, as if shifting from one image to the other. Lastly Sear’s Shuffle paintings offer the clearest picture of source and image, asking us what we are seeing. The image of the original film, or a re-imaging in oil paint. I ask myself are we at the source of the river or at its end.