Busacca Gallery

By Artist Angilee Wilkerson: This is a one of a kind Cyanotype--an antiquated process of hand applied sensitizer and long sun exposure. The paper is a heavy weight 100% acid free cotton. Emulsion is mixed and applied by hand. The work is hand signed and titled in pencil on the back. This is a unique and beautiful blueprint photogram of botanicals and butterflies. While wandering through the woods, camera in hand the artist collects earth objects and evidence of indigenous life in varying degrees of decay. She brings the specimens back to her studio to be photographed individually or used in a photographic assemblage. Angilee’s work reflects upon the subtle and often overlooked beauty and strangeness found in the thickets, grassland prairies and flood plains of the North Texas and Southern Oklahoma region. This work poetically formulates her interpretation of this landscape and all those that inhabit it. Angilee Wilkerson holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Texas Woman’s University with an emphasis in Photography and Paper & Book Arts. She is an artist with an extensive exhibition record, university lecturer of fine art and a professional editorial photographer. Angilee has participated in both international and national exhibitions including seven solo exhibitions and over 40 group exhibitions. Her work has been recognized and honored by jurors from The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The George Eastman Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY; The Society for Photographic Education; Aperture Magazine; and many others. In addition her photographs have been featured in fine art journals, editorial magazines, and newspapers, including The Photo Review; Photographer’s Forum; Harper’s & Queen—London; The Wall Street Journal; Photo District News and many others. Active in her community, she is often invited to lead fine art workshops for institutions such as The Dallas Museum of Art, The Arlington Museum of Art and Texas Photographic Society.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogram

"A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a photo-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The result is a negative shadow image varying in tone, depending on the transparency of the objects used. Areas of the paper that have received no light appear white; those exposed through transparent or semi-transparent objects appear grey.[1]

Artistic cameraless photography, as the technique producing photograms is usually known, is perhaps most prominently associated with Man Ray and his exploration of rayographs. Others who have experimented with the technique include László Moholy-Nagy, Christian Schad (who called them "Schadographs"), Imogen Cunningham and even Pablo Picasso.[2] Varieties of the technique have also been used for scientific and other purposes."