April 20, 2022
Amie Potsic interviews Andrea Appel and Christopher Brown, owners of The SPACE Art Gallery, a fine art photography and design gallery in Philadelphia, about their current exhibition by renowned photographer
Chuck Kelton.
© Chuck Kelton, Moonrise on Golden Pond, Unique chemigram and photogram. Signed on verso. Photo courtesy of The SPACE Art Gallery.
© Chuck Kelton, Mountain Moonrise, 19.75" x 23.75", Unique chemigram and photogram. Signed on verso. Photo courtesy of The SPACE Art Gallery.
© Chuck Kelton, Blue Moon #5, 19.75" x 23.75", Unique chemigram and photogram. Signed on verso. Photo courtesy of The SPACE Art Gallery.
About the exhibition
Using only traditional black and white photographic chemicals and traditional light-sensitive photographic paper, Kelton creates vivid landscapes that dance with movement. The result is a version of reality that evokes both chaos and stability and adds the additional comfort of this world having been Dipped In Gold.
Kelton's chemigrams and photograms are the continuations of a half-century of photographic explorations that started with his first camera click at the age of 13. Completing his MFA at Ohio University, in a program that focused not only on the development and creation of visual projects but an intensive study of the photographic materials themselves. Kelton was on a journey, not only to create his own works of art but to become a Master Printer in the commercial and artistic world of photographic printing. This selection of work has its foundations in his early visits to Bear Mountain, outside of New York City. It was there that Kelton first experimented by holding photographic paper against a tree and allowing the light to directly expose the paper. The result was a magical expression of negative space that blurred the reality of what was present and what is imagined.
Dipped in Gold is on view from April 1 – May 31, with an artist reception on Saturday, May 21, 2-6 PM.
For more information, visit: https://www.thespacephiladelphia.com/online-store-chuck-kelton
Amie Potsic Art Advisory is a promotional partner for this exhibition.