Opening Reception Friday, May 28 5-7pm

Jennifer Terzian Gallery is pleased to present works on paper and sculpture by Connecticut based artist Fritz Horstman. This is the gallery’s inaugural show in historic downtown Litchfield, CT. The opening will take place on Friday, May 28 from 5pm-7pm. The show will close on Friday, July 9.

All guests are required to wear masks and hand sanitizer is supplied at the front desk. We will have a limited number of guests allowed in at a time. For a private appointment, please contact the gallery.

Subjectivity and objectivity oscillate in interesting ways when one looks closely at the systems that make up our world. Aspects of nature that may at first appear fixed and unchanged by the human world take on fluid and fungible features when closely observed. What may seem to be highly personal can expand to something universal. This perceptual fluidity informs the formal, spatial, and environmental concerns that run through all of my Folded Cyanotypes and Formworks. Attention to material and process is paramount.

Folded Cyanotypes is a series of two-dimensional objects, which carry the memory of light, three-dimensional space and manual manipulation, and which stem from an interest in natural structure. Made by first folding paper by hand into an intricate pattern. After unfolding it, cyanotype photographic fluid is applied. Working in the dark to protect the light-sensitive material, the paper is refolded, then placed in natural light, and sometimes manipulated using mirrors and lenses. The paper is then rinsed in water, and pressed flat to dry. What was exposed to light in the process turns blue when developed, and what was not remains white, furthering the spatial complications by reversing lightness and darkness.
Event Location
3BB South Street Litchfield, CT 06759
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Jennifer Terzian Gallery