FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 2022
Barbara Cole Exhibits Signature Underwater & Wet Collodion Photography with Holden Luntz Gallery at Art Miami 2022
Miami, FL – Fine art photographer Barbara Cole exhibits works from her underwater and wet collodion photography practices with Holden Luntz Gallery at Art Miami, November 29 – December 4, 2022.
Known for her timeless aesthetic and pioneering spirit, Cole presents selections of her two most recent series for Art Miami:
In BEAT, Cole brings together an ensemble of figures who elicit ethereal conversations about the movement of bodies and water. Guided by the weightlessness of Cole’s signature underwater photography, each figure, donned in white, independently investigates what it means to move in what is both an insulated and changeable space. This series expands upon Cole’s treatment of water as a medium of transformation with newfound immediacy, uplifting our desires for reconnection, freedom, and lightness of being.
In Shadow Dancing, Cole revitalizes a 150-year-old photography technique: wet collodion. The series depict various scenes of models in motion, gliding through the picture, creating a beautiful, three-dimensional dance between light and shadow. Her preference in using one of the very first forms of photography allows her to slow down the overall process that goes into making a single picture, and spend a significantly longer time in the dark room. By doing so, she shortens the distance between the past and the present by taking a primitive form of photographic process and modernizing it by adding color to the tintype to create mysterious pictures of beige, gray and brown shades.
Details
Holden Luntz Gallery
Art Miami 2022, Booth AM210
November 29 – December 4, 2022
VIP Preview
Tuesday, November 29, 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
General Admission
Wednesday, November 30, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Thursday, December 1, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Friday, December 2, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Saturday, December 3, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Sunday, December 4, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
About Barbara Cole
Barbara Cole is a fine art photographer working in several photographic mediums, including underwater photography and modernized wet collodion. She was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1953. Her work is noted for its ethereal imagery depicting figures in various states of weightlessness, transformation, and self-actualization. As an innovator in her field, Cole’s use of traditional and inventive techniques are part of her ongoing search for timelessness. She has held numerous exhibitions across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Her work has also been extensively commissioned internationally for corporate collections. She has exhibited in the Canadian Embassy in both Tokyo and Washington D.C. The acclaimed documentary series Snapshot: The Art of Photography II, features an episode devoted exclusively to Cole’s photographic practice. She is currently working on an upcoming book from teNeues.
Website: www.barbaracole.com
Instagram: @barbaracoleart
About Holden Luntz Gallery
Holden Luntz Gallery was founded in 1999 in Palm Beach, Florida, as a pioneering gallery specializing in fine art photography. For decades, the gallery has continued its mission of acquiring and presenting significant photographers whose work has defined or expanded the parameters of the medium. The gallery presents a varied range of work surveying numerous aesthetic photographic processes, including silver gelatin black and white prints, traditional color C prints, dye destruction prints, alternative process photographs, platinum-palladium prints to contemporary sublimated photographs printed on aluminum.
Exhibitions rotate periodically, allowing much of the gallery’s exceptional collection to be showcased. These exhibitions range in scope from modern classic photographers such as Diane Arbus, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Horst P. Horst, André Kertész, Helmut Newton, and Edward Weston to contemporary photographers like Harry Benson, Michael Eastman, Elliott Erwitt, Karen Knorr, Massimo Listri, Garry Fabian Miller, Albert Watson, Stephen Wilkes, and David Yarrow.
Website: www.holdenluntz.com
