In a captivating convergence of photography, perception and architectural space, Barth graces the ground-floor gallery with three of the seven mesmerising compositions that make up ...from dawn to dusk, a series derived from a year-long study of a single doorway within the Getty’s premises. The location was photographed every five minutes, from dawn to dusk, on two days each month for the entirety of the year; November, December and February are featured in this exhibition. Upstairs, Barth’s latest pieces, stemming from this series, manipulate the building’s appearance. Through color variations, softened outlines, nuanced lighting, blurred backgrounds and strategically placed circular motifs atop the rectangular structure, her alterations transform the original architectural setting. These works serve as a testament to Barth’s lifelong fascination with the interplay between the limits of the human eye and the photographic medium.

For the past twenty years, Uta Barth (b. 1958) has made visual perception the primary subject of her photographic work. A 2012 MacArthur Fellow, Barth was born in Berlin and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Notable solo exhibitions have been presented at The Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Art Institute of Chicago; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah; SITE, Santa Fe; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her work is well represented in both private and public collections worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Bilbao; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., Tate Modern, London; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.