Mary Ellen Bartley: Photographs

From August 2 through September 3, The Drawing Room presented the gallery’s first exhibition of photographs by Mary Ellen Bartley. The show encompassed three bodies of work in which Bartley composes views of her collected books. Variously huddled in stacks, opened at their spines, or assembled in lateral or towering configurations, the volumes fade in and out of focus in compelling still lifes. In each series, Bartley reexamines the physical and metaphoric potential of her subject and creates nuanced color photographs that hover at the intersection of still life and abstraction.

See below for full press release and selected works.