Smoke and Mirrors #200

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Smoke and Mirrors #200

2006

American, born 1972

New York-based Quinlan's photographs are never manipulated by digital technology; instead they are staged in a darkroom using "common tricks of the trade": mirrors, strobe lights, and smoke. At once highly objective-documenting exactly what the camera sees-and subjective, her work builds illusions, a false sense of depth, and achieves unnatural colors through use of the fertile compositional tool of overlapping panes of glass.

UV-laminated Chromogenic print

40 x 30in. (101.6 x 76.2cm)

Gift of David and Kim Schrader

2008.79.1

Provenance: [Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY]; Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson Collection, Los Angeles, CA

Not currently on view

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