Statement:

Bryan Graf utilizes a combination of techniques and materials within his experimental approach to photography. His work explores the tension between control and chance, as he deliberately upends accepted conventions of photographic representation, creating expressive works that speak to a more emotional and censorial experience of the world. Graf’s rigorous investigation of the photographic medium brings out the complex and often opposing forces at play in relation to one’s experience of a specific place. 

Biography:

Born in 1982, Bryan Graf lives and works in upstare New York.. He received an MFA from Yale University in 2008 and a BFA from the Art Institute of Boston in 2005. His work has been exhibited at the George Eastman House Museum, Rochester, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine; and DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts. Graf was the 2015 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He is the subject of several monographs: Wildlife Analysis (Conveyor Arts, 2013); Moving Across the Interior (ICA@MECA, 2014); Prismatic Tracks (Conveyor Arts, 2014); Broken Lattice (Conveyor Arts, 2015); and Debris of the Days (Conveyor Arts, 2018). 

The Sun Room: Interchanges, B-Sides Series

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email: bryangrafstudio@gmail.co,

phone: 732 589 4093

The Sun Room: Interchanges, B-Sides & Remixes started out as polaroid sketches made in andaround my studio from 2008 - 2017. The literal immediacy of the polaroid film itself was revitalizing; I could make photograms and experiment with materials without any of the usual lag time betweensending film out to a lab and making contact prints. After a days work there would sometimes be closeto a hundred sheets of film scattered around my studio. This sheer volume of physical imagery mademe begin to consider the connections between images: the changing light in the studio, the winter sunin the early evening, the abstraction of a mesh screen lying in the corner, text drawn from the day'splaylist of songs... it all contributes to a series that I see as a visual journal of my studio practice. The text experiments were an extension of my desire to create a poster for the work that doubled as an image within the series. This derived from my time collaborating with a designer to make visiting artist posters while a graduate student at Yale. The prints were done entirely in the darkroom with acetate sheets of printed text laid over the paper. It was an interesting way to make posters, allowing some chance variables to come into play from that direct, physical contact with the materials. Since then, I have found new ways to play with chance within my work integrating text as a flexible medium. In this edition for Sherpa Gallery, I have scanned the original unique prints and decided to make an edition of inkjet prints of these works available. This mirrors the publication, Interchanges, B-Sides & Remixes (Sun System Press, 2012), of these works as they are now more widely available at an approachable price point.