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Stefanie YoungStefanie Young

Stefanie Young

Altered States of Reality: an Exhibition of Analog and Digital Fine Art Photography
April 14 - May 5, 2009 Reception: Thursday April 16, 2009 6-8 PM

Press Release

Stefanie Young, a photography lecturer at WINTEC in her native New Zealand with an MFA from Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, works with stylized black and white compositions. Fleeting images of places and faces are blurred by movements and obstructions. The resulting mysterious aura places her works in an uncertain context, sometimes resembling strange everyday moments, elsewhere taking on the allegorical weight of posed scenes. Through manipulations of light and lines, a unique, leading aesthetic unites her varied subjects.

Despite the ostensible object of her images, Young foregrounds lines, movements and light, guiding us over her prints dynamically so that viewers hone in on details before taking account of the entire composition. By keeping our eyes moving through her works, aesthetics amplify the subjects’ mystery and ambiguity. Partially hidden women’s engaging stares caught in a blur, corners of empty rooms shown out of focus, all work to conceal the subject and engage the imagination. Stefanie Young generates captivating intrigue less through her subjects than through her craft.


Artist Statement

My artistic practice is one of interdisciplinary exchange. I work with variables of light and space often using the gesture of a line or body to translate the photographic spatial experience through the media. My art making attempts to raise issues of perception and knowing, transgressing or perhaps intersecting the conventional codes attached to photography and painting. Photography is not easily separated from an experience of time and space. My research finds reflection within the writings of Geoffrey Batchen and Henri Bergson with specific reference to the ideas of ‘memory as a pre-requisite for perception…fused together with both body and consciousnesses’.



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