The Heckscher Museum of Art’s collection spans 500 years with particular emphasis on art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. American landscape painting and work by Long Island artists, past and present, are particular strengths, as is American and European modernism.
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Dings & Shadows
Over four decades, Ellen Carey has explored light, color, and process in a practice centered on lensless photography. In her Dings & Shadows series, the artist continues her longstanding investigation of the photogram, a 19th century photographic process in which objects are placed onto light sensitive paper and exposed to sunlight, capturing negative shadows that reference the items used. Rather than manipulating objects to create representational images, Carey wrinkles photographic paper and exposes it to a carefully choreographed spectrum of light, achieving abstract images in a range of tonal values from highly saturated color to nuanced hues resulting from subtle shadows cast by creases in the paper. Unlike her predecessors who have worked with the photogram process, Carey’s subject is the physical properties of light and color itself.