CAREY, ELLEN (represented by Galerie Miranda) Born in New York City in 1952, Ellen Carey is a contemporary of the "Pictures Generation" artistic movement and Buffalo’s avant-garde, alongside Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo. Artist – photographer and lens-based artist,university educator, independent scholar and guest curator, she is Associate Professor of Photography at the Hartford Art School - University of Hartford (Connecticut). As a visual artist, Carey disrupts…

For the third capsule show of its 6th anniversary cycle, Galerie Miranda brings together 5 major artists whose different practices explore and disrupt the fundamentals of the traditional photographic medium: the darkroom, the artist's gesture and the representative function. Chuck Kelton's abstract chemigrams resemble landscapes; Laura Letinsky's still lives are in fact meticulous compositions of found images, torn and collaged; Ellen Carey's Finitograms are  ready-made  unique works, unsigned…

For the last exhibition before summer break, Miranda Salt, gallery director, proposes a selection from the gallery inventory with works by eight contemporary artists whose practise is influenced by the legcy of first woman photographer, Anna Atkins (1799-1871, English), amateur botanist and watercolorist who published in 1843 the first book to be illustrated by photographs, entitled Photographs of British Algae, cyanotype impressions. Atkins presented the algae like a herbariu…

A première for her new bodies of work, and the artist's second personal exhibition at Galerie Miranda, Ellen Carey’s handbook guides us through photography’s nearly two centuries’ arc of light, photogram, colour and Polaroid as seen in her constantly intersecting practices. For the 21st century, for Paris, the City of Light, Ellen Carey brings her arc into the future with Crush & Pull with Rollbacks & Penlights, a completely new 21st century pho…