Angelina McCormick
Altered States of Reality: an Exhibition of Analog and Digital Photography
April 16 - May 7, 2010
Reception:
Thursday April 22, 2010 6-8 PM
Press Release
Sensitive and compelling depictions of the most treasured and fragile plants provide Angelina McCormick’s photographs of flowers with a timeless appeal. Crystalline images of flowers, presented against a stark white or spotlighted background, become expressive beings of natural wonder. This staging puts the onus on the quality and arrangement of leaf, petal, and stamen as carriers of the message or theme. When captured in various stages of decay, the flowers become a catalyst for pondering our own cycle of life. One photograph may pulsate with intense crimson while the next shows crumpled petals with the color and life drained out. “My photographic art is about bringing something that did not previously exist into being,” she explains. “My work is simply about creation.” But too, we see that McCormick’s art also explores the events after creation, indeed, the repercussions of our being.
Besides creating her distinctive art, she also teaches at the School of the Photographic Arts in Ottawa. McCormick exhibits her work frequently in Canada and the United States.
Artist Statement
Art depends on contradictions. It lives in our responses, in our interpretations and in our understanding. My photographic practice captures the beauty of the world around me through my lens. Sometimes I intend to create beauty, sometimes the mere act of creation is sufficient motivation. In transferring the images from reality to film, I negotiate my inner conflicts and emotions. Although my photographs portray external subjects, they always originate within my spirit, existing as concrete representations of my interior thoughts. I am present in my work, which is in turn an integral part of my nature and my being.
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