Fabulous and Photographic – Before You Now at MOAH and Multispectral at Von Lintel Gallery

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Diversions LA by Genie Davis

Just closed at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, Before You Now: Photographic Transmutation, dazzled with brilliance of idea, color, and technique. The exhibition was a tour de force of both traditional and more experimental photographic form.

The exhibition featured work in separate solo shows by five outstanding photographic artists: Ellen Friedlander, Naida Osline, Brad Miller, Osceola Refetoff,  Andrew K. Thompson…

Speaking of the soul, The Soul Speaks from Ellen Friedlander turns photography itself into a sculptural form with brilliant, bisected images that use pin hole photography and long exposures, creating intimate and highly personal portraits. The artist then cut and divided the images she shaped, reassembling them as if the emotional puzzle that makes up all our souls was fitting itself together through the revealing eye of a camera lens.

Friedlander’s result is visionary and alchemic, a transformation of self into something graceful, elliptical, and alchemic. Always a dazzling photographic artist, here her work builds an exciting new way of looking at human subjects.