Grid-Portraits
May 3 – June 2, 1990
Perception involves the visual synthesis of incremental spaces at finite points of time.
These photographs of artists and craftspeople explore and challenge our perceptive processes by testing the limits of discontinuity, in both space and time, which our brains will accept in reading an image.
Often included in the imagery is the photographer as voyeur and the material artifacts involved in making the photograph, including a Polaroid image of the finished portrait as a compositional element within the image. This self-referential element further emphasizes the act of perceiving, and in addition attests to the collaborative relationship between the photographer, his subject and the objects in their environments.
This work gives a new meaning to “The Decisive Moment”, for the lattice-window view presents a maze of scrambled time and recombinant architecture.
Stu Levy is a photographer living in Portland, Oregon. He was a co-founder of the Portland Photographic Workshops and has led photography workshops on the Oregon Coast for over 30 years. He studied with Ansel Adams and was an assistant instructor for Ansel’s workshops in Yosemite and Carmel; he was also an instructor at the Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops.
His photographs are in many public and private collections including The Center for Creative Photography, the George Eastman House, the Portland Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Museum of Photographic Arts, San Francisco Civic Center, Portland Visual Chronicle and the Wilson Centre for Photography.
He was one of the founders of the Photography Council of the Portland Art Museum and was the Council President from 2003 to 2006.
He is also on the Board of Directors of Photolucida and the Pacific Northwest Photographers Archive.