{"id":3788,"date":"2016-04-18T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:05:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:05:11","slug":"ellen-carey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/ellen-carey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Carey"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8584\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3788-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ellencarey.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ellencarey.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ellencarey.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_3789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3789\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3789 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyUlrichBirkmaier.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ellen+Carey,+Ulrich+Birkmaier\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyUlrichBirkmaier.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyUlrichBirkmaier.png?w=443&amp;ssl=1 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ulrich Birkmaier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ellen Carey (b.1952 USA) is an educator, independent scholar, guest curator, photographer and lens-based artist, whose unique experimental work (1976-2015) spans several decades. Her early work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/ellen-carey\/black-and-white-portraits\"><em>Painted Self-Portraits<\/em><\/a> (1978) were first exhibited at Hallwalls, an artists-run alternative space, home to the Buffalo avant-garde \u2014 Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman \u2014 and led to a group exhibit <em>The Altered Image<\/em> at PS 1, another avant-garde institution.<\/p>\n<p>The visionary curator, Linda Cathcart, of The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG) selected Carey\u2019s work for this exhibition as well as <em>The Heroic Figure<\/em> which presented thirteen American artists for the S\u00e3o Paulo Biennale including Cindy Sherman, Nancy Dwyer, Julian Schnabel and David Salle, with portraits by Robert Mapplethorpe, for its South and North American tour (1984-1986).<\/p>\n<p>In 1983, The Polaroid Artists Support Program invited Carey to work at the Polaroid 20 X 24 Studio. Her Neo-Geo, post-psychedelic <em>Self-Portraits<\/em> (1984-87) were created, quickly followed by her stacked photo-installations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/ellen-carey\/polaroid-20x24-abstractions\"><em>Abstractions<\/em><\/a> (1988-95). Her pioneering breakthrough the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/ellen-carey\/pulls-gallery-2\"><em>Pull <\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1996) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/ellen-carey\/rollbacks\"><em>Rollback<\/em><\/a>(1997) name her practice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/photography-degree-zero\"><em>Photography Degree Zero<\/em><\/a> (1996-2011). Here, she investigates minimal and abstract images with Polaroid instant technology partnered with her innovovative concepts, often using only light, photography\u2019s indexical, or none, emphasizing zero. Her photogram work is cameraless; it parallels her Polaroid less-is-more aesthetic under her umbrella concept <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/struck-by-light\"><em>Struck by Light<\/em><\/a> (1992-2015). Carey has worked in a variety of cameras and formats: Polaroid SX-70 and Polaroid PN film; black\/white to color; 35mm, medium, and large format. Her experimental images, in a range of genres and themes, are one-of-a-kind.<\/p>\n<p>Site-specific monumental installations in Polaroid include<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/mourning-wall\"><em>Mourning Wall<\/em> <\/a>of 100 grey negatives at Real Art Ways (2000) and <em>Part-Picture<\/em> exhibition (2015) at Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art (MoCCA); <em>Self-Portrait @ 48<\/em> at Connecticut Commission for the Arts (2001) and the gigantic <em>Pulls XL<\/em> that used the Polaroid 40 X 80 camera (shortly thereafter dismantled, never reassembled) for her MATRIX #153 exhibit (2004-05) at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; the prestigious MATRIX program celebrates its 40th year. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/ellen-carey\/dings-shadows\">Dings &amp; Shadows<\/a>,<\/em> a new color photogram installation, recently exhibited at the Benton Museum of Art and another at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Her new series <em>Caesura<\/em> uses the photogram to introduce visual breaks in color; caesura is Greek or Latin for pause: in word (poetry) or sound (music).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/photography-degree-zero\"><em>Photography Degree Zero<\/em><\/a> (1996-2011) names her Polaroid lens-based art while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/struck-by-light\"><em>Struck by Light<\/em><\/a> (1992-2015) names her parallel practice in the cameraless photogram. Her experimental investigations into abstraction and minimalism, partnered with her innovative concepts and iconoclastic artmaking, often use bold colors and new forms. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/pictus-writ\"><em>Pictus &amp; Writ<\/em><\/a> (2008-2015) finds the artist tradition of writing on other artists. <em>Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective<\/em> at MASS MoCA, with Yale University Press, published the book <em>Sol LeWitt:100 Views<\/em> with 100 new essays; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/pictus-writ\"><em>Color Me Real<\/em><\/a> is Ellen Carey\u2019s contribution. Her Man Ray essay on her discovery of his \u201chidden\u201d signature in his black and white photograph (1935) titled <em>Space Writings (Self-Portrait)<\/em> sees an edited version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/pictus-writ\"><em>At Play with Man Ray<\/em><\/a> published in Aperture. On her own work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellencareyphotography.com\/pictus-writ\"><em>In Hamlet\u2019s Shadow<\/em>,<\/a> published in<em>The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation<\/em>exhibit\/book\/tour (2012-13); Mary-Kay Lombino, Curator, Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Carey\u2019s work has been the subject of 53 one-person exhibitions in museums, alternative spaces, university, college and commercial galleries (1978-2015): The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Real Art Ways, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, St. Joseph University, and ICP\/NY. Her work seen in hundreds of group exhibitions (1974-2015): museums (Smithsonian), alternative spaces (Hallwalls), galleries (Perrotin) and non-profits (Aperture). Her work is in the permanent collections of over twenty photography and art museums: Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG), George Eastman House (GEH), Museum at the Chicago Art Institute, Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA), Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery; corporate: Banana Republic; private: Linda and Walter Wick, and the LeWitt Foundation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3792\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3792 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyPullPolaroidRollback.png?resize=625%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ellen+Carey,+Pull,+Polaroid,+Rollback\" width=\"625\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyPullPolaroidRollback.png?resize=1024%2C700&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyPullPolaroidRollback.png?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyPullPolaroidRollback.png?resize=768%2C525&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyPullPolaroidRollback.png?resize=624%2C427&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyPullPolaroidRollback.png?w=1043&amp;ssl=1 1043w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polaroid 20 X 24 Pulls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3790\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3790\" style=\"width: 627px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3790\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyEdgeofVision%40ApertureEllenCareyPhotographyArtArtistPhotographyInstallation.jpg?resize=627%2C418&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ellen+Carey,+Edge+of+Vision+@+Aperture,+Ellen+Carey+Photography,+Art,+Artist,+Photography,+Installation\" width=\"627\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyEdgeofVision%40ApertureEllenCareyPhotographyArtArtistPhotographyInstallation.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyEdgeofVision%40ApertureEllenCareyPhotographyArtArtistPhotographyInstallation.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourning Wall, Ellen Carey, 2000, 100 Polaroid Negative Prints, 34&#8243;H x 22&#8243;W (each) or 15&#8217;H x 42&#8217;W (all), Collection of the Artist. Installation image from 2015: The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3791\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3791 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyEdgeofVision%40ApertureEllenCareyPhotographyArtArtistPhotographyInstallation-1.jpg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ellen+Carey,+Edge+of+Vision+@+Aperture,+Ellen+Carey+Photography,+Art,+Artist,+Photography,+Installation-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyEdgeofVision%40ApertureEllenCareyPhotographyArtArtistPhotographyInstallation-1.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/EllenCareyEdgeofVision%40ApertureEllenCareyPhotographyArtArtistPhotographyInstallation-1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourning Wall, detail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ellencarey.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listEllen Carey (b.1952 USA) is an educator, independent scholar, guest curator, photographer and lens-based artist, whose unique experimental work (1976-2015) spans several decades. 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