Exhibition

Joe Rudko

26 Oct 2019 – 21 Dec 2019

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
12:00 – 18:00
Thursday
12:00 – 18:00
Friday
12:00 – 18:00
Saturday
12:00 – 18:00
Sunday
Closed

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Von Lintel Gallery

Santa Monica
California, United States

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Photomontage would be the best technical description of Joe Rudko’s use of fragments of vintage photographs, but the effect he creates is so much more nuanced than splicing old images into new meanings.

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Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition of work by photographer Joe Rudko.  

Photomontage would be the best technical description of Joe Rudko’s use of fragments of vintage photographs, but the effect he creates is so much more nuanced than splicing old images into new meanings.

From far away the work looks like an obscured, pixelated photograph.  When moving closer, it becomes quickly apparent, that there is nothing remotely digital about these images.   

Rudko works with found photographs that pre-date the digital era. Cutting these images into fragments, he then rearranges them systematically.  The resulting montage entices the viewer to assemble the seemingly disparate visual fragments for themselves.  It is as if Rudko is using them as tiny mirrors that reflect back on the viewer’s personal experience, linking past and present.  

Joe Rudko lives and works in Seattle.  He received his BFA in Photography and Drawing from the Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA in 2013.  His work is in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art. 

For additional information or visual material, please contact the gallery at (310) 559-5700 or by email at gallery@vonlintel.com.

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