10 December 2015

Ceramic Dolls (NSFW)

Now open at the Art on Roofs gallery is an exhibition of recent photography by Terrygold entitled Ceramic Dolls. On display, positioned on and around the rooftops onto which one ventures, are roughly two dozen mostly black-and-white images that depict the female nude, beautifully composed and with striking lighting and textures. Overall, the figures are more sensual than sexual, possessing a strongly reflective white skin that resembles a heavily glazed ceramic, thereby inviting us to focus less on the body itself as a sexual form and more on its interplay with other elements inside the frame.

The elements around the nude figures were in each case built around the avatar: Terry explained to me that she composed every image beginning with a pose, and, in a painstaking process, constructed a set around it, adding prims and numerous lights, working to highlight materials. The results are memorable and evocative compositions. The exhibition continues until December 20.

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