1301PE is pleased to present the newest exhibition by MacArthur FellowUta Barth, on view from March 11 to April 22, 2017. Her third soloexhibition with the gallery will consist of two distinct yet relatedprojects: “In the Light and Shadow of Morandi” and “Untitled 2017.” Bothprojects are continuations of a career long engagement with andexploration of visual perception. While her influences span the historyof painting, sculpture and installation art, particularly that ofMinimalism and the “Light and Space” movement native to her adopted homeof Los Angeles, she has primarily employed the medium of photography,as she continues to be fascinated by the strong similarities anddifferences between camera vision and that of human eye and mind.“Inthe light and shadow of Morandi” is inspired by her love of Morandi’sprolonged practice of repetitiously rendering the same subjects in thesame space and his tireless attention to the slightest changes of lightand form, Barth now continues her turn from observer of existing lightto her newer practice of intervening in the scene and actively drawingwith light. But Morandi serves only as a jumping off point, as her newimages, ambiguous as to their making, render a new type of glowingluminosity and color, reminiscent of that seen in stained glass windowsof old. She carefully manipulates everyday glassware to refract andreflect light, allowing it to spill onto the background as if it wereliquid or paint. The luminous image-objects are presented in irregularshapes, a welcomed albeit ironic byproduct and solution to a uniquelyphotographic problem—extreme parallax distortion. The unconventionalshape of the image is the result of photographing these shadow tableauxfrom extreme angles and then restoring a frontal view after the fact.Here again the work foregrounds and embraces the oddities of cameravision that human perception so elegantly compensates for.Thesecond project on view, “Untitled 2017,” is part of a series of largescale and acutely sharp photographs that describe the slightest changesof light, humidity and time as seasonal changes play out across asection of the seemingly plain white exterior wall of the artist’sstudio. The subtlety of these changes demand and reward the closestattention to detail, as they embrace emptiness, blankness, stillness andthe contemplation for which the artist is best known.A 2012MacArthur Fellow, Uta Barth was born in Berlin and currently lives andworks in Los Angeles. Notable solo exhibitions have been presented atthe Art Institute of Chicago; Henry Art Gallery, University ofWashington, Seattle; the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah; SITE, Santa Fe;Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe; Museumof Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Museum of Contemporary Art, LosAngeles. Her work is well represented in both private and publiccollections worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, NewYork; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NewYork and Bilbao; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., TateModern, London; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Dallas Museum ofArt, Texas; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art,Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Los Angeles CountyMuseum of Art, Los Angeles; The Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and TheWalker Art Center, Minneapolis.