Front view
Inv. No.S-0846
ArtistJames Wellingborn 1951 in Hartford, Conn., USA
Title

"Skylight"

from the series "Light Sources"
Year1997
Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions84 x 68 cm
Edition5/6
Comment

Since 1992, James Welling has been working on the Light Sources series, an open-ended collection of various portraits, landscapes, and interiors. All of the works in the series indirectly relate to the process of perception, and while many of the objects literally transmit light, the series acknowledges that everything we see reflects light and is also a source of light.

Like much of Welling's work, Light Sources taps into memories and emotions in the viewer, about darkness, strange places, and the wonder of that which attracts us for reasons unknown. It is a trope for the seductions of the quickly glimpsed, the half remembered, the partially understood, qualities that Welling wants to hold up, examine, and admire without piercing the fragile surface of their own fugitive grace.
(Carol Squiers, Artforum, 1998)

A Slice of Light by Carol Squiers, Artforum, 1998 (PDF)

S-0846, "Skylight"
James Welling, "Skylight", 1997
S-0846, Front view
© James Welling
S-0845, James Welling, "East Rock", 1995
James Welling, "East Rock", 1995
more infoS-0845, Front view
© James Welling