Barb Choit | Nagel Fades

Barb Choit (00) presents her first solo gallery show at the Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York.

In Nagel Fades, Choit explores the effects of photochemical processes on found objects. Taking her inspiration from Dennis Oppenheim's 1970 work Reading Position for a Second Degree Burn - in which the artist captured his own body's painful imprinting by the sun's UV rays - Choit documents the impact of beauty salon materials and apparatuses - chiefly, UV-light-emitting tanning beds - not upon the body, but upon Patrick Nagel's iconic 1980's fine art posters.

Choit purchases Nagel prints online, fades them using a tanning bed, lamps, or bleach to varying, time-controlled degrees, and then documents the results. Enacting a readymade photographic method that is independent of camera, a dark room , or digital imaging, the artist accelerates the conditions - simultaneously creative and destructive - that are inherent to the aesthetic domain, where all objects are, gradually, destroyed by the very light that makes them visible.

For more information, contact the Rachel Uffner Gallery.

Opening Reception: Friday, October 30, 6-8pm 

Barb Choit | Nagel Fades
October 30 - December 20, 2009