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Mary Ellen Bartley Chromatic Fiction
Mary Ellen Bartley
Chromatic Fiction January 18 - March 23, 2024

Mary Ellen Bartley: Chromatic Fiction

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Works

  • Pyramid, from the series Split Stacks, 2022
    Pyramid, from the series Split Stacks, 2022
  • Summer Reading #1, from the series Reading in Color, 2019
    Summer Reading #1, from the series Reading in Color, 2019
  • Reading in Color #14, from the series Reading in Color, 2019
    Reading in Color #14, from the series Reading in Color, 2019
  • Reading in Color #5, from the series Reading in Color, 2019
    Reading in Color #5, from the series Reading in Color, 2019
  • Summer Reading #3, from the series Reading in Color, 2019
    Summer Reading #3, from the series Reading in Color, 2019
  • Summer Reading #6, from the series Reading in Color, 2019
    Summer Reading #6, from the series Reading in Color, 2019
  • Chartreuse, from the series Reading November, 2014
    Chartreuse, from the series Reading November, 2014
  • Reading November #8, from the series Reading November, 2021
    Reading November #8, from the series Reading November, 2021
  • Wide Shadow, from the series Split Stacks, 2022
    Wide Shadow, from the series Split Stacks, 2022
  • Information Please!, from the series Reading Grey Gardens, 2017
    Information Please!, from the series Reading Grey Gardens, 2017

Press release

Artist

Mary Ellen Bartley

  • Mary Ellen Bartley Biography: Mary Ellen Bartley is a photographer known for her quiet exploration of the printed book’s potential for abstraction. Series like Reading in Color, Paperbacks, and Reading November celebrate the tenacity of an object that, rather than falling into obsolescence as expected, has somehow become more universally beloved in the public imagination since the digital age first threatened its extinction.

    In addition to her sculptural treatment of anonymous volumes, many of them nostalgically recalling the pulp paperbacks of our childhoods, Mary Ellen Bartley has also turned her camera on notable libraries or collections. In 2015, Bartley... View artist page

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