Notes toward a Supreme Fiction
Locks Gallery, 2004
Press Release, “Notes toward a Supreme Fiction”:
Borrowing the title of American poet Wallace Stevens’ 1942 poem, "Notes toward a Supreme Fiction," this exhibition features a selection of images simultaneously romantic in their lush photographic use of color and light, and conceptually absorbing in their evocative depiction of an artist’s creative process. These scenes from Neff’s residency at The MacDowell Art Colony – a selection of landscape imagery and domestic interiors – bear only faint traces of the digital manipulation used to create them and collectively describe the small epiphanic moments of recognition when an artist is immediately inspired by an image or idea. The artist has chosen to present these large-format digital prints alongside three text panels – the subtitles from Stevens’ poem. These isolated texts serve as a set of informal captions for the entire exhibition and describe an ideal set of conditions for the product of a creative process.
Enter Night
C-print mounted on aluminum, 42 x 56 ¼ inches
ABSTRACT
C-print, 14 x 14 inches
Dickinson
C-print mounted on aluminum, 34 x 50 ¾ inches
Thoreau
C-print mounted on aluminum, 34 x 48 ¾ inches
Millay
C-print mounted on aluminum, 34 x 51 ¾ inches
Beckett
C-print mounted on aluminum, 34 x 51 ¾ inches
Stevens
C-print mounted on aluminum, 34 x 50 ½ inches
Inseen
C-print mounted on aluminum, 42 x 55 ¼ inches
CHANGE
C-print, 14 x 14 inches
Deer
C- print mounted on aluminum, 42 x 54 inches
Fur Light
C-print mounted on aluminum, 54 x 80 inches
PLEASURE
C-print, 14 x 14 inches