OLGA KORPER GALLERY
BARBARA STEINMAN
Keeping Time
June 18 – July 17
Keeping Time
It started out as a way to mark time and then became about time itself. From September through January while in lockdown in Montreal and fearing there may not be flowers at all in the future, I began making images of flowers in various stages of their life cycles. This was a way to focus.
This selection of photographs is mainly of roses. They have an aching beauty and even what the French describe as jolie laide, an unconventional beauty. I set up a makeshift apparatus to control the framing no matter where the flowers fell. Some are arranged, others caught in random movement, some are suspended, others thrown down.
Surrounded by an uneasy and indeterminate black space, these are not flowers for special occasions in specific places. To me, these are not pictures of flowers as much as they are pictures of time.
Barbara Steinman
For over forty years, Barbara Steinman’s work has consistently given shape to migration of identities and symbols, as well as the intertwined pathways of time and History, of individual and collective memory. From her critically acclaimed installations of the 1980s and 1990s, that were often site-specific and multimedia, to her more recent photographic series addressing the echo of time-based forms (the flight of a bird, a sound wave or a magnetic tape), through numerous public commissions, Steinman uses a great variety of media and materials to explore what she once called “layers of impermanence” in ways that are both sensitive and conceptual.
Ji-Yoon Han
Opening Reception
June 18, 2021 10:00 am – 5:00 pmArtist Links
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Included Artworks
Keeping Time No. 116, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 132, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 172, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 281, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 532, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 487, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 306, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 430, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 166, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 456, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 246, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Hahnemühle rag Baryta paper, ed. of 3 48" x 37"
Keeping Time No. 129, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Hahnemühle rag Baryta paper, ed. of 3 48" x 37"
Keeping Time No. 178, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Hahnemühle rag Baryta paper, ed. of 3 48" x 37"
Keeping Time No. 37, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 97, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 536, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 106, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 2, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 261, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 439, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 46, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 130, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 120, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 128, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 19” x 15”
Keeping Time No. 356, 2021
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Caslon Photographique rag paper ed. of 5 24.25” x 20.25” framed
Whisper, 2011-2012
Barbara Steinmanchromogenic print on Hahnemühle Rag Baryta paper ed. of 5 32 1/3” x 27 5/8”
