Wendy Paton
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Wendy Paton presents « Nuit blanche »
Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is thrilled to present "Nuit Blanche" a series of photographs from Wendy Paton. Nuit Blanche is a collection of the artist’s most recent candid night portraits a contemporary vision of the night; striking, hand printed, large format silver gelatin prints seen for the first time in this solo exhibition. Life-size in dramatic, powerful emotion, these latest nocturnal images from Paton allow the viewer to share the vision of the artist as a voyeur, and at the same time bringing the viewer into the subject’s world of mysterious darkness, as a participant inside the actual scene “Nuit Blanche” is the artist’s second solo show at the gallery, and will feature iconic images from the artist’s well-known series, “Visages de Nuit”.
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Visages de Nuit - Wendy Paton
Wendy Paton allows herself to disappear in order to let her subjects emerge from the night. “My experience is that people act differently at night. They let their guard down. They become who they really are, or they transform themselves into someone, real or imagined, that they want to be. There are seemingly no restrictions at night. Life seems to become more free flowing as opposed to how people tend to act in the light of day.” For Paton, the night is both solemn and cheerful, open to desire and mystery.
Her nocturnal portraits are both intimate and familiar. Intrigued by the mysterious and ever-changing nature of human personalities and their individual choices of expression, Paton was compelled to use people as her creative communication conduit. She did not plan out the details of this series i...
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Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is thrilled to present "Nuit Blanche" a series of photographs from Wendy Paton. Nuit Blanche is a collection of the artist’s most recent candid night portraits a contemporary vision of the night; striking, hand printed, large format silver gelatin prints seen for the first time in this solo exhibition. Life-size in dramatic, powerful emotion, these latest nocturnal images from Paton allow the viewer to share the vision of the artist as a voyeur, and at the same time bringing the viewer into the subject’s world of mysterious darkness, as a participant inside the actual scene “Nuit Blanche” is the artist’s second solo show at the gallery, and will feature iconic images from the artist’s well-known series, “Visages de Nuit”.
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Wendy Paton allows herself to disappear in order to let her subjects emerge from the night. “My experience is that people act differently at night. They let their guard down. They become who they really are, or they transform themselves into someone, real or imagined, that they want to be. There are seemingly no restrictions at night. Life seems to become more free flowing as opposed to how people tend to act in the light of day.” For Paton, the night is both solemn and cheerful, open to desire and mystery.
Her nocturnal portraits are both intimate and familiar. Intrigued by the mysterious and ever-changing nature of human personalities and their individual choices of expression, Paton was compelled to use people as her creative communication conduit. She did not plan out the details of this series i...