“Machine Vision” at Candela Gallery is a sobering look at what that revised reality and its new cultural artifacts are shaping up to resemble. The survey of tech-based artists features photographers using robotics, artificial intelligence, and public surveillance cameras, as well as unconventional cameras such as scanners, computer monitors, X-rays and digital composites of appropriated, web-based images. By Karen Newton for Style Weekly

Machine Vision Artist Feature: Noelle Mason

Candela Gallery is pleased to announce Passport Cancelled, a photography and mixed media solo exhibition by Priya Kambli, opening January 6, 2023.

Blue Hour Artist Feature: Raymond Thompson Jr

Blue Hour Artist Feature: Galina Kurlat

Blue Hour Artist Feature: Peter Cochrane

Candela Gallery is pleased to announce Blue Hour, a group exhibition featuring photographic works by Granville Carroll, Peter Cochrane, Heather Evans Smith, Dylan Hausthour, Galina Kurlat, Raymond Thompson Jr, and Em White.

Flux is an ongoing spotlight of works in Candela’s gallery inventory showcasing the breadth of the photographic medium and our love for process. Join us over the course of the next month as we highlight this season’s featured artists: Harrison D Walker, Linda Connor, Alyssa Salomon, and Willie Anne Wright.

Flux is an ongoing spotlight of works in Candela’s gallery inventory showcasing the breadth of the photographic medium and our love for process. Join us over the course of the next month as we highlight this season’s featured artists: Harrison D Walker, Linda Connor, Alyssa Salomon, and Willie Anne Wright.

Flux is an ongoing spotlight of works in Candela’s gallery inventory showcasing the breadth of the photographic medium and our love for process. Join us over the course of the next month as we highlight this season’s featured artists: Harrison D Walker, Linda Connor, Alyssa Salomon, and Willie Anne Wright.

Flux is an ongoing spotlight of works in Candela’s gallery inventory showcasing the breadth of the photographic medium and our love for process. Join us over the course of the next month as we highlight this season’s featured artists: Harrison D Walker, Linda Connor, Alyssa Salomon, and Willie Anne Wright.

Candela Books + Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by David Emitt Adams. The exhibition will open on Friday, September 6th and will be on view through Sunday, October 27th. Please join us for an opening reception and artist talks on Thursday, September 5th, from 5- 8 pm.

Candela Gallery is pleased to present ATOM | PLANET, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist, Anne Arden McDonald. Within this series McDonald creates photographic works imbued with celestial and atomic aesthetics. Approaching her darkroom process like a sort of alchemy, McDonald captures a dialogue nebulously drifting between mediums by testing materials and techniques through experimentation, noting variables, and observing the results, and amending processes.

Candela Gallery is pleased to present CHANNELS, a group exhibition featuring photographs and mixed media works by Courtney Johnson, Lisa Kokin, and Willie Anne Wright. The exhibition features three artists whose work evokes a transformative experience; each imbued with elements of salt, filament, or flora to create new forms.

CHANNELS opens September 7th with an artist reception on September 6th, from 5-8pm and runs through October 20th.

Candela Gallery is excited to announce UnBound7!, Candela’s annual juried & invitational exhibition. UnBound! features a wide array of photographic techniques from both emerging and established artists, both locally and abroad. We are very proud to bring you a compelling selection of photographic work for the seventh year in a row!

In his first solo exhibition at Candela Gallery, Harrison Walker presents his Portals project, highlighting a mix of photographic processes through a series of abstract works. In Walker’s words, the series is “an investigation of photographic chemistry, psychological perceptions, and ideas of duplication, mimicry, and the multiple.” Through experimentation and discovery the varied effects of his photographic, printmaking, and drawing techniques, seek to elicit not only an emotional but also a fundamentally experiential viewing.

Chris McCaw returns to Candela Gallery in his second solo exhibition featuring work from his recent projects, as well as new work from his Sunburn series. Over the last decade, Chris has continued to push the boundaries of the photographic medium, sharing his unconventional techniques for capturing the movement and the power of the sun as it travels through his viewfinder. With hand-built cameras and vintage photographic paper, McCaw creates unique pieces documenting the sun’s movement through illusory land and seascapes. Long exposures throughout a day, or over multiple days, materialize as marks and burns made directly by the sun’s light as it exposes the paper. As McCaw writes, through this collaborative process, “the sun has become an active participant in part of the printmaking.”

Candela Gallery is pleased to present “Theory of Place,” a group exhibition featuring photographic work by Marcus DeSieno, Courtney Johnson, Camilo Ramirez, and Justin James Reed.

Often, we introduce ourselves by where we come from or where we live, and sometimes, by where we do not. Our environment influences our identity. Inversely, we define locations by giving names to them. The aura of a place is tethered to both physical and cultural perceptions, but what happens when this delicate balance is altered and that tether is warped or frayed at the edges?

Subject to Change centers around seven artists who use traditional photographic processes to revive lost or discarded everyday objects. Each appropriated piece offers it’s own course in which to channel history, precipitating new stories through a range of alternative processes including wet plate collodion, silver gelatin prints, image transfers on film, collage, and 3-D mixed media objects.

Candela Books + Gallery is pleased to present Andreas Rentsch: Experiments in Time, a comprehensive view of Rentsch’s photographic career.

Andreas Rentsch is a New York based photographer who deliberately challenges conventional approaches to photography. Though Rentsch’s works exemplify the literal definition of photography, ‘writing with light,’ his emphasis on experimentation and chance yields an innovative hybrid of analog photography, uncertainty, and performance art.