Cube Corner, 2008 | Images courtesy of Renwick Gallery

Reading

Photography records optical space. Its basic elements are light and time. I reduce my subject to these elements to investigate photography’s inherent properties and how we perceive and categorize this medium. Some of my subjects are created through the act of photographing. Others are illusions of or metaphors for light and time. How can the basic tools of light and space move us? How can we encounter them in new ways?

The title of my series Reading refers to the act of interpreting visual stimuli. These photographs are about seeing an image and understanding it—its formal complexity or the manner in which it was made. Reading uses experimentations with perception and abstraction to look at photography itself—its ability to transform that which already exists or to create new existence.

Triangle, 2008

Cube, 2008

Paper, 2008

Rainbow, 2008

Spectrum, 2008

Primary Colors Flashed at Black, 2008

Primary Colors Flashed at White, 2008

Fire, 2008

Sun, 2008

Moon, 2008

Bio

Talia Chetrit lives and works in New York, New York. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008 and previously earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Talia Chetrit’s recent exhibitions include The 13th Annual PRC Exhibition at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, The Form Itself at Priska Juschka Fine Art in New York, and Full of Light, an exhibition in Memory of Bruce Conner in Los Angeles. In September 2009 she will have her first solo show at Renwick Gallery, New York. Chetrit’s work can also be seen in the current annual issue of Contemporary Magazine. taliachetrit.com. renwickgallery.com