The ethereal-looking results suit subject matter that Levin writes about with a sense of mystery and matter-of-factness. I like that the it would go through a kind of transformation, and the images have this nostalgia for old field-guide notes but also newness by presenting them in inverse.” The whole book was painted in reverse, and it’s a painting and a photo-but there’s no camera. So anything that I paint as dark becomes white, and anything that’s left as negative space becomes black. “The painting is pressed on top of black-and-white photo paper, and it prints in positive. “Basically, I make a painting and then use it as if it’s a photographic negative to make a positive,” Halloran said of designs she first paints on translucent drafting film more commonly used by architects to make layover drawings. To make her paintings, Halloran took inspiration from the process of cliché verre, a technique popular among French artists in the 19th century for making prints by painting on glass and using that painting as a tool in a photographic darkroom. Lia Halloran, cliché verre print from painted negative for Black Hole Survival Guide, 2020. It has this loose quality of messages from exploration.” I loved the concept of Lia as one of the astronauts exploring a black hole, and this is her notebook. “I knew it needed something,” Levin said of her manuscript at the time, “and it just kicked me in the face. Norton & Company).Īfter hitting it off and maintaining a relationship for years-including during a 2016 artist residency for Halloran at Pioneer Works-they met again in New York and the idea for the book collaboration was born. Levin had written about the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Kip Thorne in her 2016 book Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, and the Los Angeles–based Halloran-an associate professor of art at Chapman University whose work is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles-had been working with Thorne on a decade-in-the-making mix of writing and art about what she called “the warped side of the universe” (to be published next year by W. The two first met at a party in California for Stephen Hawking. Video Art Pioneer Charles Atlas Stages His Most Ambitious Work to Date at Brooklyn's Pioneer Works
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