‘Kene Sperry’s artwork re-creates the ineffable sense of discovery we felt as children exploring our parks, playgrounds, or backyards. Through his blackand-white images, recognizable scenes take on new meaning. A forest resembles microbes under a microscope. A buffalo’s textured fur could be a distant hill. A river system becomes veins beneath the skin. His photography documents the natural world, but it’s not always immediately clear what is in each image. First, you’ll see the rich textures in each piece, the sweeps of light and dark. Then forms emerge—an elk’s shadow, a mountain ridge, a line of tracks in the snow. The images capture parts of a whole, as if the focus is somewhere else. This is because his subject has never changed. His work is an invitation to surrender, to let go of the walls that separate us from one another, from the natural world and from ourselves. The subject will always be, as another writer has observed, “The viewer, looking inward.”’
- James Farrell, Mountain Living Magazine, November/December 2022
Inquiries: www.kenesperry.com - 406.581.2574 - info@kenesperry.com
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All images in editions of 33 printed up to 40x60 in Light Exposure or “LE” process (a digital print to Ilford Multigrade Fibre Base paper) and shadowbox framed passe-partout to museum standard. Framed size of 40x60.
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All images in editions of 11 Printed up to 48x72 in Light Exposure or “LE” (a silver halide digital print to Ilford Multigrade Fibre Base paper) or Light Valve Technology or “LVT” (a digital to film negative process that allows for multiple silver gelatin paper options) and framed in hand-milled oak or maple passepartout to museum standard. Framed size of 60x84.
$49,950 - - - -
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