Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, MD 21250 Baltimore, USA
10 February - 31 May 2025
Archive 192 is an independent archive dedicated to preserving and celebrating abstractionist works by women photographers established in 2015 by photographer Louie Paul and photo editor Chloe Coleman. The archive, which now holds over 200 prints, books and ephemera challenges conventional narratives of the history of photography that centre documentary realism and aims to counter underrepresentation of work by women in institutional collections.
This exhibition presents a selection of photographs from Archive 192 that explore the diverse techniques of abstraction, including framing, cropping, magnification, and altering chemical processes. These visual strategies present unfamiliar views of real-world objects and change the appearance of photographic prints to create non-representational images. The photographs on view also represent the array of photographic processes employed by photographers in pursuit of abstraction over more than a century, including cyanotypes, C-prints, tintypes, and Polaroid colour instant prints. Related to ephemera including publications, artist books and posters document the evolution of abstractionism in photography and the political contexts, such as the feminist movement, that impact women working within the medium.
Three of Fiona Grady's Polaroids from her 'One of One' series created in 2018 and one of her 'Triangulations' screenprints are one display as part of the collection.
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
The presentation of this exhibition is supported by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts & Sciences, the Libby Kuhn Endowment Fund, as well as individual contributors.
