Solo Show: Whitney Hubbs

Statement

Day For Night / To Fill the Unforgiving Minute

Photography has the capability to simplify, scrutinize, transform, and abstract the complexity of the everyday experience. I seek out moments of immediate experience; the unpredictable, quick, insignificant, and fleeting, and in my looking make them meaningful. My photographs become evidence of what I saw; of time, of light, of space. Abstract relationships are constructed in editing; and what confronts the viewer is a series of stark images that are mundane yet unsettling and rise to a level of significance. My work and my practice have a relationship to the photographicness of photography. What this (photographicness) means to me, is staring at the everyday and making a picture out of it. It is how film can abstract and simplify what I see, and make a trace of the chance and the unplanned. It is about manipulating the light to create a darkness. A photograph is an index of physical presence and allows the viewer to see different modes in which the physical can be caught. And what I’m capturing is the polarity of light and dark, nature and the city, the solid and ethereal, the fragility and the concrete, stillness and movement, and femininity and masculinity. And what I want the viewer to walk away with is the metaphorical and literal idea of mystery and a confinement and enclosure of vision.

Bio
Whitney Hubbs was born in 1977 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA from UCLA in 2009. She has exhibited her work internationally, most recently at P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York City. Hubbs’ work has also been featured in The New York Times and Blind Spot magazine. She is the 2009 recipient of the Toby Lewis Fellowship.