Lightwaves Photographic Works by Joe Rudko

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Concurrently, an earlier work from this same series, will be featured at the Getty Museum in its third rotation of “In Dialogue”, a series of ongoing installations that present contemporary photographs from its permanent collection, in conversation with European paintings, decorative arts, and sculpture, from the museum’s permanent collection galleries.

As in previous exhibitions, the work in this show is made from the collected vintage snapshots of friends, family, and a variety of internet vendors. The images are hand cut and organized according to color before they are assembled into new abstracted forms or pathways. The result never fails to pull the viewer in for a closer look.  Rudko’s arranged visual puzzles seem to evoke common threads in our collective memories reaching into our pasts, as well as our present.

“His work is anything but predictable, yet he calls upon familiar visual spaces in ways that offer a sense of stability.  His capacity to find practical and emotional value in the process of art-making keeps him invested in finding novel ways to articulate ideas”. Bree Lamb for Adilletante.

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 Getty Museum, Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and most recently in the Morgan Library & Museum in New York