Currently at art 45 photographer Alison Rossiter presents her recent series of works titled Abstractions.

Rossiter creates her small sized “photographs” without the use of a camera. Over the last five years the artist has made it her mission to track down expired photographic paper, some dating back to 1908. She then develops these papers, revealing flaws such as cristallisation, chemical degradation, or fingerprints. The resulting images are simple black and white abstracts, some resembling landscapes, some reminiscent of a Rorschach test, while others look like organic structures observed through a microscope. Her work is purely aesthetic, going “directly from idea to object without making reference to any specific thing.”
In this digital age, the artist’s focus on the materiality of manual photography gives the exhibition a distinct painterly feel.

art 45
space 220
Alison Rossiter
Abstractions
exhibition period: September 5 – 27, 2008
www.art45.ca