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Chapter NY is pleased to present Picture a Train, the first solo exhibition by Eloise Hess at the gallery.
Through a painting practice deeply informed by photography, Eloise Hess explores the conditions of perception and the plasticity of memory. Hess works serially, each series beginning with a set of photographs. Working between photography, printmaking, and encaustic painting, she has developed a distinct material language. Rather than seeking a singular, photographic representation, she instead seeks the variable, internal representation of the photographed experience.
Picture a Train begins with a set of photographs taken at Amboy Crater, a dormant volcano in the Mojave Desert, 50 miles northeast of Joshua Tree, California. Hess lived in the area from 2017 to 2020 and visited the crater often but did not take any photographs there during that time. This body of work marks her return, driven by the absence of a...More
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Chapter NY is pleased to present Picture a Train, the first solo exhibition by Eloise Hess at the gallery.
Through a painting practice deeply informed by photography, Eloise Hess explores the conditions of perception and the plasticity of memory. Hess works serially, each series beginning with a set of photographs. Working between photography, printmaking, and encaustic painting, she has developed a distinct material language. Rather than seeking a singular, photographic representation, she instead seeks the variable, internal representation of the photographed experience.
Picture a Train begins with a set of photographs taken at Amboy Crater, a dormant volcano in the Mojave Desert, 50 miles northeast of Joshua Tree, California. Hess lived in the area from 2017 to 2020 and visited the crater often but did not take any photographs there during that time. This body of work marks her return, driven by the absence of a...More
