Brad Carlile

“Tempus Incognitus” is my series of large-scale color photographs of hotel rooms that invite the viewer to imagine the multitude of human emotions played out within their confines. Despite the fact that globalization has homogenized our interior environments, the stories that have taken place within these rooms are unique. By utilizing a labor-intensive technique to capture the evolution of light, I emphasize the change of time in vivid, even lurid, colors. Think of Edward Hopper interiors awash in James Turrell colors with David Lynch directing.

"Tempus Incognitus" records the day's transitional times and shows them existing concurrently. The Cubists painted individual scenes from several different perspectives at once. In this series, I photograph individual rooms at several different times of day from a single perspective.

This series has conceptual underpinnings. I have rules that combine the element of chance in these environments with predetermined rules that provide underlying parameters for this process. Multiple exposures are shot over 2 or more days and images are created in camera and on film with no digital manipulation. Each image is composed of 3-9 exposures. Only the light in the room is used to create the...

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
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MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS & BIENNIALS
2014 Tempus Incognitus, XVIII Encuentros Abiertos, Argentina (solo show)
2009 Hearst 8x10 Biennial, Alexey Brodovitch & Hearst Gallery, Hearst Tower, New York, NY
2008 Foreign potografias, MoMA Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (added to collection in 2011)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Galería Alicia D ́Amico, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 Tempus Incognitus, The Independent, Portland OR, (picked Portland's best photography show)
2010 Tempus Incognitus, De Santos Gallery, Houston TX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 20th Juried Exhibition, The Griffen Museum, Winchester MA
2013 Archisle 2013, Société Jersiaise, Jersey, UK (current)
2013 GeoGráfica, Fototropía of La Fototeca, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2013 Blue Sky's Pacific Northwest Viewing Drawers, jurors (Diana Millar, Ed Marquand), Portland OR
2012 Annual Show, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington DE
2012 Blue Sky's Pacific Northwest Viewing Drawers, jurors (Clint Willour, Laura Moya), Portland OR
2011 The Photo Review, Interiors, Stephen Perloff, Langhorne, PA

SELECTED AWARDS
2014 PDN Photo Annual 2014, Winner, Personal Work Category
2104 Photolucida Critical Mass, Finalist, Portland OR
2014 3 Hon...