An exhibit featuring motion-based photography, “Dancing with Light, Painting with Time,” by Kurt Norlin and Jeff Hess is on display at the South Santiam Hall Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd. S.W., Albany.
The artists exhibiting colorful abstract photography both use motion blur as the foundation of the mark-making in their images, but their creation process is very different.
Norlin, an Albany artist and retired LBCC photography instructor, creates his painted photographs using a technique called Intentional Camera Movement. The photographer uses a digital camera and pinhole lens and combines it with intentional and subtle camera movement, which creates the visual elements that are then layered in Photoshop to form the final image. Norlin said his process is “part science, part art, and part ritual, the process allows me to literally draw with light.”
Hess, a Corvallis photographer, uses an opposite approach in creating photographic impressions. His work in the exhibit includes a series of what he calls “temporal painting.”
With this technique, Hess applies “brushstrokes of light” using the movement of natural materials, like grains, leaves, petals or berries in front of a stationary camera. Each image is a single exposure of the camera, which records the flight of the materials through space.
The two photographers will discuss their individual process at an artist reception from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, in the gallery. The reception is free and open to the public with food and beverages provided. The exhibit runs through March 17.
The South Santiam Hall Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information about LBCC art galleries, see linnbenton.edu/artgallery.
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