Orchestrated Objects brings together the extremely elegant, poetic, and revelatory work of two contemporary American photographers, Jed Devine and Abelardo Morell. Devine makes luminous, sensual photographs printed on translucent rag paper coated with a platinum/palladium emulsion. This nineteenth-century technique results in a painterly surface that is soft and velvety. Morell's crisp, clear, gelatin silver photographs introduce us to a world of unexpected scale, extraordinary points of view, and startling juxtapositions. Morell's camera obscura photographs capture, using contemporary techniques, a pre-photographic technique dating back centuries. Both artists demonstrate how technology of the past can create work very much of the present. This exhibition highlights the way each artist, through the virtuosic arrangement of objects, reveals what is exceptional in the every day world, transforming and redefining that world for us.

- Rachel Seligman, Director/Curator

Photographs by Abelardo Morell

Camera Obscura Image of Umbrian Landscape over Bed, 2000
gelatin silver print


Camera Obscura Image of  the Chrysler Building in Hotel Room, 1999
gelatin silver print

Two Forks Under Water, 1993
gelatin silver print

Photographs by Jed Devine

Untitled, (Stack of Cups)
platinum/palladium print

Untitled, (Apple and Colander)
platinum/palladium print

Untitled, (Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges)
platinum/palladium print