Ellen Carey: Struck by Light
Struck by Light represents the largest survey of Ellen Carey’s experimental photo-objects and lens-based art opening at the New Britain Musuem of American Art (NBMAA) showcasing iconic works spanning decades of her career (1991-2022), all from NBMAA collection as well as the artist’s own. In Lacock, England, home of photography, The Fox Talbot Museum, Light Struck features a solo exhibition by Ellen Carey (May 2023-March 2024); it complements the New Britain Museum of American Art. Collectively, the works trace Carey’s enormous contributions to the field of photography through her ongoing and ever-innovative experiments in light and color, dings and shadows, dark/negative versus white/positive.
Light Struck: Ellen Carey
Ellen Carey’s Light Struck takes the viewer through two centuries of photographic play and discovery. Showcasing key pieces from her career, the exhibition also features a completely new artwork (2023) created in response to one of Talbot’s 19th-century photograms titled: Crush & Pull with Hands, Penlights & Spruce Needles. Many of the artworks in Light Struck are from the artist’s collection on exhibit for the first time in England.
Let There Be Light: The Black Swans of Ellen Carey
Let There Be Light: The Black Swans of Ellen Carey opens as a visual vade mecum at Galerie Miranda in spring 2022. Carey’s handbook guides us through photography’s nearly two centuries’ arc of light, photogram, colour and Polaroid as seen in her practices, Photography Degree Zero and Struck by Light.