Gainesville, 4 July 2011, Art Media Agency (AMA).
The Harn Museum of Art is hosting a retrospective dedicated to American photographer Jerry Uelsmann until 11 September 2011. Jerry Uelsmann is famous for his innovative and Surrealist printing techniques and for his fifty-year struggle to have photography accepted as an experimental art form.
“The Mind’s Eye: 50 years of photography by Jerry Uelsmann” is co-organised by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The exhibition consists of a selection of eighty-nine works from all periods of the artist’s career and includes extremely rare pieces that have never exhibited before.
The event highlights Uelsmann’s major influence on the universe of photography via his revolutionary handling of photographic composition. The presentation of different images in the artist’s work allows the public to gain a better understanding of his oeuvre. The pieces on display are part of Ueslmann’s own archives and are definitive. Photographs, books and albums enable the spectators to penetrate the artist’s universe.
Since the late 1950’s, Ueslmann has been very successful due to his dark photographs depicting an illusory reality. Although his pictures seem convincing, they never feature a real landscape. Jerry Ueslmann describes his work in these words: “My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas,” as reported on ArtDaily.
The artist was born in Detroit in 1934 and obtained a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1957, along with a Master of Science and Master of Fine Arts degrees from Indiana University in 1960.
Ueslmann’s oeuvre is renowned and exhibited all over the world.