Walead Beshty: Processcolorfield

April 16 – May 14, 2011
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm 

Regen Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based artist Walead Beshty. This exhibition, the artist's first solo show at the gallery, will present new works that reflect the artist's continued exploration into and rewriting of the historical, conceptual, and formal tenets of the photographic medium. Beshty's large-scale "Black Curl" photograms are seductive and elusive works that refer to both the analog beginnings of photography and mine the gaps in the medium's historical narrative. Created in the darkroom through a fixed set of predetermined constraints, these works explore the materiality of photography through chance operations that result in fields of color produced from the interaction between the abstract color system that governs the process of photographic printing, and the base physicality of photographic paper. Each piece in the "Selected Works" series is a hybrid photograph, sculpture, and painting, comprised of works the artist decided were unfit for exhibition.