Smoke and Mirrors #200
2006
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 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
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
