Artist talk: leaf & luminosity – prints and photographs by Kate Lowman

Exhibit runs August 29 – September 29
Washington Printmakers Gallery
Gallery hours: Thursday & Sunday 12:00-4:00 pm, Friday & Saturday 11:00-5:00 pm
Artist talk: September 8:00, 3:00 pm
“The big world of post-production photography”

I always begin with photography, but I never know what the end result of my work will be. For me, post-production photography is a big world, and I basically view myself as a printmaker rather than a photographer. Inevitably, my photographs end up modified or cut up / rearranged. Even those prints in leaf & luminosity which I call “photographs” have been radically edited. Some pieces in this exhibit are constructed prints combining bits of multiple photographs. Others retain the label “photograph” only because they are single shots in which the original pixels remain in their original locations. The pixels themselves have been pushed as hard as I could push them. While all my work is done with digital tools, much of the work is manual: i.e., shading, highlights, and color are modified with a digital brush, sometimes a pixel-by-pixel basis. The final phase is printing, which I do myself on a wide format inkjet printer, using pigment ink on matte fine art paper. Please join me to talk about these prints at the Washington Printmakers Gallery.