Meet the Artists Series featuring Chris McCaw
Thursday, October 22 | 5-6pm PDT via ZOOM
FREE for Los Gatos Residents & NUMU members, join today!
Real Artists. Virtual Studio Visits. A NU Series!
CHRIS McCAW, Sunburned GSP #597 (Mexico), 2012, Unique gelatin silver paper negative, Courtesy of the artist
In this NU 4-part series, curator Allison Railo takes us into the homes and studios of the artists featured in the alternative process photography exhibition, Image + Object. It virtually doesn’t get any better than this!
Meet photographer Chris McCaw as he takes us through his Pacifica studio to check out his hand-built, multi-lens cameras. Learn more about his burning interest in collaborating with the sun and utilizing expired photographic papers.
Meet photographer Chris McCaw as he takes us through his Pacifica studio to check out his hand-built, multi-lens cameras. Learn more about his burning interest in collaborating with the sun and utilizing expired photographic papers.
McCaw’s Sunburn Series is an unexpected display of landscapes and abstract markings on photographic paper. His intentional processes and choice of materials harness sunlight as a powerful, even destructive force. The signature burn of McCaw’s pieces, which many photographers would consider a flaw, was discovered by chance after leaving the camera shutter open too long. Now he intentionally seeks out this effect by placing single pieces of vintage gelatin silver paper in a customized camera, carefully choosing locations based on the angle and power of the sun at a particular time of year. With this information, he directs the timing, length and number of exposures to create other-worldly landscapes in collaboration with the sun.
Chris McCaw studied at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA and received his BFA from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. His work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, among many others.
This program has been made possible in part by a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
