Eileen Neff: Between Us
ICA Philadelphia, PA, 2007
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Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, 2009
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Excerpt, Press Release from “Eileen Neff: Between Us”:
Using the camera, the computer, and the space of the studio, Eileen Neff poetically reconstructs moments experienced outside of them. Clouds move from outdoors to in. Windows appear as apertures onto completely other places. The landscape doubles but does not mirror itself. A blur of motion is bifurcated by one strangely still tree. These arresting images show how unfamiliar the world can be. To cut these moments out of the flow of events and images that daily surround us, Neff uses the camera like scissors.
* The paragraph above also introduces a more extended catalogue essay by Ingrid Schaffner, Senior curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
Installation view, "Between Us"
Installation view, Birds I and Birds II
Birds I
C-print mounted on aluminum, 40 x 65 inches
Birds ll
C-print mounted on aluminum, 40 x 65 inches
Installation view, Anecdote of the Tree and A Planet’s Encouragement
Anecdote of the Tree
C-print mounted on aluminum, 44 x 64 inches
A Planet’s Encouragement
C-print mounted on aluminum, 44 x 66 ¼ inches
Installation view, including Thoreau, Before Fiction, Dickinson, and Beckett
Thoreau
C-print mounted on aluminum, 38 x 48 ¼ inches
Before Fiction
B&W photograph, wooden frame, and book, 42 x 36 x 5 inches
Detail, Before Fiction
Installation view, "Between Us"
Dickinson
C-print mounted on aluminum, 34 x 50 ¾ inches
Installation view of Studio Wall
Installation view, Circle in the Rain and Cul-de-Sac
Installation view, including Circle in the Rain, Cul-de-Sac, Almost (November 21, 2000), and Over the Hill
Circle in the Rain
C-print mounted on aluminum, 15 x 28 ½ inches
Almost (November 21, 2000)
Pigment print, 57 x 42 ½ inches
Over the Hill
C-print mounted on aluminum, 15 x 51 inches
Installation view, including Over the Hill, First Star, and Falls by Car
First Star
C-print mounted on aluminum, 12 x 18 ¼ inches
Falls by Car
C-print mounted on aluminum, 34 x 34 ½ inches
Installation view, including Slipping Glimpse, Narcissus, Night Falls, and Rendezvous
Slipping Glimpse
Mimaki print, Height variable x 1inch
Night Falls
C-print mounted on aluminum, 40 x 110 ¾ inches
Rendezvous
C-print mounted on aluminum, 40 x 63 inches
Installation view, including This and That, Getting Lost, Sunday, and Five, for example
This and That
C-print mounted on aluminum, 44 x 49 inches
Five, for example
Five panels, B&W Photographs, 39 x 60 x 37 ½ inches
Getting Lost
C-print mounted on aluminum, 34 x 43 inches
Installation view, including Another Bride and The Visit
Another Bride
Pigment print, 41 x 72 inches
The Visit
Oil on B&W Photograph, 40 x 53 inches
Installation view, Summer (The Couple), C-print mounted on aluminum, 40 x 63 ¼ inches
and Moving (The Couple), Digital video with sound
Installation view, "Between Us"
Domestic Support
Oil on B&W photo cutout, 40 x 25 inches
Western Wind III
C-print mounted on aluminum, 44½ x 63 inches