| Joy Episalla air view #3 2006 Chromogenic print mounted to plexi 36 x 36 x .25 inches (installed horizontally 12 inches above floor-level) Courtesy of the artist images from Debs & Co. (2004); images from Studio 1.1, London (2004) Ephemera + multiples: Frosty for All Seasons Clouds, Rain & Snow Subterranean Homesick Blues No Bush |
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| Joy Episalla is a New York artist who works in the interstices between photography, video and sculpture. Her work focuses on the wealth of information that mundane architecture or an object can provide, like a forensic examiner or palm reader, studying the cracks and stains inscribed on the surface -- the secret histories of places and things. Her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally including the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago; Debs & Co., NY; Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston; The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans; The Phoenix Art Museum; ARCO, Madrid; Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussles, Belgium; and Studio 1.1, London. She is a 2003 recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Often her viewpoint is so close to the subject that the large-scale color photos slip gently over the border into abstraction, an especially pronounced effect in those works that Episalla physically "dissects." From review, Joy Episalla at Debs & Co., by Bill Arning, Art in America, March 2000 |
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