RACHELLE BUSSIÈRES | (UN)objectively
September 17th — October 15th, 2020
(Monday—Friday, 2:00pm—6:00pm. By appointment only)
Demi-cercle (15 minutes, Victoria)
Size: 20 x 24 inches, 2020
Lumen print on gelatin silver paper
Mounted on 1/8 clear plexiglas
Signed on verso
Unique, 2020
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Rooted in both photography and sculpture, Rachelle Bussières’s practice revolves around the interaction of mediums, with each work becoming the product of a synergistic approach. Her recent lumen prints* track the subtle but precise movement of assembled objects, light sources, and even the artist’s hand, which becomes a tool for controlling light exposure to the photographic paper. “I seek to generate new ways of seeing, challenge our beliefs of perception, and draw attention to the ways in which light and shadow sculpt new optical space,” Bussières says. “The final works represent a sort of performance in and of themselves—the space between what can be known and what can be seen.”
* A lumen print is essentially a photogram – a camera-less process involving black and white photographic paper, a subject matter and a light source.
Cercle, bleu (18 heures)
Size: 19,5 x 23,5 inches
Lumen print on gelatin silver paper
Mounted on 1/8 clear plexiglas
Signed on verso
Unique, 2020
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Prisme double (15 minutes, Victoria)
Size: 20 x 24 inches
Lumen print on gelatin silver paper
Mounted on 1/8 clear plexiglas
Signed on verso
Unique, 2020
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Prisme double (20 minutes, Victoria)
Size: 20 x 24 inches
Lumen print on gelatin silver paper
Mounted on 1/8 clear plexiglas
Signed on verso
Unique, 2020
Sold
Cercle, grand (20 minutes)
Size: 20 x 24 inches
Lumen print on gelatin silver paper
Mounted on 1/8 clear plexiglas
Signed on verso
Unique, 2020
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Cercle, bleu, grand (24 heures)
Size: 20 x 24 inches
Lumen print on gelatin silver paper
Mounted on 1/8 clear plexiglas
Signed on verso
Unique, 2020
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Prisme double, croisé (12 heures, Victoria)
Size: 20 x 24 inches
Lumen print on gelatin silver paper
Mounted on 1/8 clear plexiglas. Signed on verso.
Unique, 2020
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Bio
Rachelle Bussières (b.1986, Quebec City, Canada) received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She is the recipient of the Graduate Fellowship Award from the Headlands Center for the Arts, California; and the Award for Excellence from the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. Her work has been exhibited at Johansson Projects (Oakland, CA), Seattle Pacific University (Seattle, WA), Soil Gallery (Seattle, WA), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn), the General French Consulate (San Francisco, CA), the Wing (San Francisco, CA), the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco, CA), R/SF Projects (San Francisco, CA), Galerie l’Inlassable (Paris, FR), Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA) and Present Company (Brooklyn, NY). She was awarded residencies at Penumbra Foundation, Banff Centre, Minnesota Street Project and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work is present in various public, corporate and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, SFMOMA Library and Archives, Facebook (commission mural) in Sunnyvale, Instagram Inc. in San Francisco and Penumbra Foundation in New York City. She is part of the first cohort in the new residency program at the World Trade Center - Silver Art Projects.
Bussières will be teaching a two day lumen print workshop at Penumbra on October 17/18. Register here.
Other Works:
Complementaire
Clamshell Box with 6 unique lumen prints. 11in x 14in. Produced at Penumbra Foundation, in August 2019.
Complementaire #1
Size: 11 x 14 inches
Lumen print on gelatin silver paper
unmounted
Signed on verso
Unique, 2019
Complementaire #2
Size: 11 x 14 inches
Lumen print on gelatin silver paper
unmounted
Signed on verso
Unique, 2019
Complementaire #3
Size: 11 x 14 inches
Lumen print on gelatin silver paper
unmounted
Signed on verso
Unique, 2019
Complementaire #4
Size: 11 x 14 inches
Lumen print on gelatin silver paper
unmounted
Signed on verso
Unique, 2019
Complementaire #5
Size: 11 x 14 inches
Lumen print on gelatin silver paper
unmounted
Signed on verso
Unique, 2019
Complementaire #6
Size: 11 x 14 inches
Lumen print on gelatin silver paper
unmounted
Signed on verso
Unique, 2019
All images © Rachelle Bussières
Mounting and framing A Street Frames, Cambridge MA