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Window with Creosote Bush - Dunmovin, CA - Limited Edition 4 of 20 Photograph
Osceola Refetoff
United States
Photography, Color on Paper
Size: 24 W x 30 H x 0.1 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Three miles north of Coso Junction off California Highway 395, Dunmovin served as a rest station for mule trains carrying silver ingots from the Cerro Gordo mines to Los Angeles in the late 1800s. Over the years, the town had a post office, service station, store, cafe, and tourist accommodations, but when I captured this image from an abandoned cabin, the businesses were all closed and NO TRESPASSING signs were posted along the perimeter. A couple of years later I had the opportunity to meet the town’s owner, Robert Ray, who lived in a doublewide trailer towards the back of the forlorn property; this despite owning several valuable mining assets. Robert told me the town was named Dunmovin because, by the time he settled there, his wife was “done movin.” I suspect the statement was, in part, apocryphal. This image has been exhibited/featured in the following venues: It's a Mess Without You - Solo Exhibition – Porch Gallery - Ojai, CA - 2017 Lucie Foundation - MOPLA Exhibition - Space 15Twenty - Hollywood, CA - 2017 Museum Tour (Solo Show) - Venice Institute of Contemporary Art/Gypsy Trails Gallery - Torrance Art Museum - 2015 New Landscape Photography - Sept 2015 Boom: a Journal of California - Framing the Desert - Summer 2015 West Hollywood Lifestyle Magazine - Premiere Issue - Winter 2014 Solo Exhibition - Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 - 2014 The Life of Things - SCA Project Gallery - Pomona, CA - 2014 Each print is titled, signed, dated and numbered on verso. There is an approximately 3" white boarder around the image area. Prints are manufactured in-house at Chungking Studio in Los Angeles Chinatown. The Window Series is printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Museum Etching paper, a museum-quality, 350 GSM-weight paper which is exceptionally robust and renders outstanding detail. After a successful print is inspected and approved, a protective seal is applied using a three-step process that increases moisture, dirt, fingerprint, and UV resistance; extending the already significant color-fastness of modern archival inks approximately 3x the length of untreated prints. Note: Image area is approximately 18x18" on 24x30" paper. Each print is accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity.
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Photography:
Color on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:
1
Size:
24 W x 30 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
Ships Rolled in a Tube
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Osceola Refetoff
United States
Osceola Refetoff’s interest is in documenting humanity’s impact on the world – both the intersection of nature and industry, and the narratives of the people living at those crossroads. His images exist within traditional means – landscape, portraiture, travel, editorial – and are variously produced using film, digital, infrared, and pinhole exposures. Thus, despite his documentarian impulses and the fact that his images deliberately depict ordinary, even mundane, subjects; he trains on them a nuanced vision, often yielding surreal, even dreamlike images. His process generally happens “in camera,” at the moment of capture, in a kind of alchemical reaction that transforms the external world into something both realistic and magical. Refetoff’s early influences were the great mise-en-scène directors Lang, Welles, Kubrick, and Melville. Today, his motion picture background informs his approach to constructing visual narratives. Framing meticulous compositions in depth, he uses the many cameras he carries to render not only how a place looks, but how it feels to be there. As he shifts between stylistic modes to build layered, multidimensional histories, what links all aspects of his eclectic practice is a commitment to capturing “what the picture requires.” Refetoff holds a B.A. in Film & Mass Communications from Duke University (1985) and an M.F.A. from New York University's Graduate Film Program (1991). His photography has been featured in Artillery, Palm Springs Life, Arid, Boom, Hemispheres, and WhiteHot magazines, among others. His work is widely exhibited including at the San Diego Art Institute, the Palm Springs Art Museum, The Main Museum, Photo LA, Porch Gallery, and numerous solo exhibitions covered in The LA Times, Huffington Post, CBS, LA Weekly, and other publications. "High & Dry," a long-term collaboration with writer/historian Christopher Langley, is syndicated on KCET's Emmy-winning program Artbound, receiving the Outdoor Writers Association of California’s 2016 award for Best Outdoor Media.
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