Georgina Reskala: Past Imperfect

GEORGINA RESKALA Past Imperfect

March 15 - May 4 2019

GEORGINA RESKALA PAST IMPERFECT

“it’s not true, yes, it’s true and it’s not true, there is silence and there is not silence.....”

Becket Between art and nature, photograph and reality. What is and what we are able to perceive sometimes meet at a point of recognition.

My work is a cumulative record of my perceptions and observations over time and space Like a slow writer of a long fictional chapter trying to painstakingly put down on paper those moments before they flee, deciphering the signs and symbols; their meaning and their deictic references. Creating a dialogue in the void, piece by piece.

In this body of work I try to stop the transient moments, pay attention to intermittence, slow down almost to a halt. People and memories flee, transform as we try to cling to the traces and resonances.

The intimacy with tangible materials and the engagement with making silver gelatine prints as well as objects with different materials, restores value to contemplation and slowing down. With the use of my own recycled images as well as found and family photographs, I print, re- shoot, take them apart in an effort to reference a residue lost from its antecedent, to resist an immediate interpretation and hope that the viewers are able to witness a glimpse of the impenetrable in the ordinary.

ARTIST STATEMENT 2019

UNTITLED #180799 44 x 84 inches Photograph on linen

UNTITLED #180751 33 x 44 inches Silver gelatin print Photograph on linen

UNTITLED #18572844 32 x 60 inches Silver gelatin prints Fiber paper

UNTITLED #180717 38 x 50 inches Silver gelatin print Fiber base paper

UNTITLED #180702 38 x 50 inches Silver gelatin print Fiber base paper

UNTITLED #152392 88 x 144 inches Photograph on linen Embroidered and unthreaded

UNTITLED #180743 5x5x3 inches Photographs, glue, gel medium

UNTITLED #071613 7 1/2x5 1/2 inches Linen, wood, glass

UNTITLED #071713 7 1/2x5 1/2 inches Linen, wood, glass

UNTITLED #180707 (54) 5 x 7 inches Silver gelatin prints Fiber paper

CHRONOLOGY 2015 1995

MFA California College of the Arts CCA, San Francisco, CA BFA, California College of the Arts CCA Oakland, CA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 2018 2015 2011 2009 2006 2005 2004 2001

K.OSS Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI Residue of a Vision, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR CCA The Meyer Simpson Library, Oakland, CA Contornos Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico Luxxe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Edgewise Arts, San Francisco, CA Tenth Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA La Cueva, Mexico City, Mexico Quotidian, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 2017

2016 2015 2012 2011

2010 2009 2008 2007 2003

Along the Edge, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR DZINE Gallery, San Francisco, CA Yixian International Photo Festival, Yixian, China Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, Venice, CA Dislocation, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR Trunk Gallery, Venice, CA Trunk Gallery, Venice, CA Slate Art, San Ramon Valley, CA Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR Harvey Milk Institute, San Francisco, CA Venice Art walk and Silent Auction, Venice, CA Newspace Center for the Arts, Portland, OR Venice Art walk and Silent Auction, Venice, CA Venice Art walk and Silent Auction, Venice, CA Venice Art walk and Silent Auction, Venice, CA Tenth Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA

GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESIDENCIES 2017 2017 2016 2011 2010

Shortlisted for the Hariban Award, Kyoto, Japan Director’s Choice Award, Center for Fina Art Photography Honorary Judge for National Childrens’ Art Competition Bergamot Station Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Workshops Honorable Mention HeyHot Shots Competition Honorable Mention, Photowork Place “Uncommon Portrait” Competition

COLLECTIONS Portland Art Museum

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