Jane Olin, “Intimate Conversation 31 (Aurora Luna)” (2020)
Join us for a special virtual artist talk with Jane Olin, interviewed by guest curator Helaine Glick.
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About Jane Olin
My photographs always begin with a question or some curiosity that arises within me. In more than thirty years, I have rarely photographed the external world for its own sake, but for the ways in which it helps to reveal subconscious processes and evoke meaning. I generally focus on a single subject in a related series of images, which allows me to hone in on the heart of what I am after. I also have a contemplative awareness practice that is of central importance to me, and which guides and enhances my working methods and my output.
As an artist who has always liked to experiment, I find that pushing the boundaries of what is possible with both camera and darkroom techniques motivates my best work. I photograph with film and sometimes use a pinhole or Holga camera for making images. I love the darkroom process and take advantage of every tool and technique at my disposal. Playing with exposure, focus, and a wide variety of photographic solutions, I embrace creative accidents, and willingly abandon rules of darkroom procedure, with the intention of expressing a distinctive vision by whatever method seems right. I sometimes print my gelatin silver pieces digitally, but only after darkroom work is completed.
About Helaine Glick
Guest curator Helaine Glick first worked with Jane Olin in 2016, curating a two-person exhibition for her at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA. She was formerly an assistant curator at the Monterey Museum of Art in Monterey. There she curated numerous exhibitions, many focusing on photography, including In Sharp Focus: The Legacy of Monterey Photography, and Bob Kolbrener In Real Time: Celebrating Fifty Years in Photography. She also curated An Eye for Adventure: Photographs by Jack London at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in Sonoma, CA. At NUMU she guest-curated the 2019 exhibition of Warren Chang’s paintings, Voice of the Fields.
Artist Talk with Jane Olin
Major support for NUMU’s exhibition Jane Olin - In The Company of Trees provided by
the Town of Los Gatos, and an anonymous donor.
