UnBound14! Artist Features: VIII
DIANE MEYER • ADRIENNE MOUMIN • YOGAN MULLER • NATIONAL MONUMENT PRESS • ELEANOR OAKES • STEPHANIE L. PAINE
UNBOUND14!
June 27 – August 9
Join us for a breakdown of our annual juried + invitational photography exhibition. Throughout the exhibition, we’ll share information about our artists and the processes behind their featured pieces.
SUPPORT THE EXHIBITION:
UnBound! is our annual juried photography show which directly supports artists in the exhibition through sales and fundraising efforts. Works in the show are available for purchase (like a normal exhibition), but friends can also give to the UnBound! Fund, which will be used by the gallery to acquire select works for the growing Candela Collection. One day, this collection will be donated to the permanent collection of a notable arts institution. This year, Candela excited to offer an honorarium + 2026 exhibition to 1-2 UnBound14! artists with funds raised over the course of the exhibition.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2ND, 7-11PM:
THE ANNUAL FUNDRAISING GALA.
This year’s theme is A Midsummer Night’s Fever Dream, which you can learn more about here.
DIANE MEYER | LOS ANGELES, CA
San Francisco, 2017.
Hand-sewn archival inkjet print,
4.5 x 7 inches, framed.
Edition #3 of 3.
$2,525 framed.
Group I, 2016.
Hand-sewn archival inkjet print,
7 x 9 inches, framed.
Edition #2 of 3.
$3,600 framed.
These images are part of an ongoing project entitled, Time Spent That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten. In these images, cross stitch embroidery has been sewn directly into family and travel photographs from periods throughout my life. The images are broken down and reformed through the embroidery into a hand-sewn pixel structure. As areas of the image are concealed by the embroidery, small, seemingly trivial details emerge while the larger picture and context are erased. Meyer is interested in the disjunct between actual experience and photographic representation and photography’s ability to supplant memory as well as the ways in which photographs transform personal history into nostalgic objects that obscure objective understandings of the past. By borrowing the visual language of digital imaging with an analog process, a connection is made between forgetting and digital file corruption. The tactility of the pieces also references the growing trend of photos remaining primarily digital- stored on cell phones and hard drives, but rarely printed out into a tangible object.
Diane Meyer received a BFA in Photography from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego in Visual Arts. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she is a Professor at Loyola Marymount University.
Work work combines photography and textiles. She recently completed a series of 19 hand embroidery photographs following the entire path of the former Berlin Wall, using the stitching to both conceal and reveal the former Wall.
Solo exhibitions include those at Klompching Gallery, New York; the Griffin Museum of Photography, Massachusetts; 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica; AIR Gallery, NYC; Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City; Encontros da Imagem Festival, Braga, Portugal; Gryder Gallery, New Orleans; and the Mitte Museum, Berlin.
Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including those at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester; Robert Mann Gallery, NYC; Regina Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna; Brattleboro Musuem of Art, Vermont; Große Rathaus, Landshut; Diffusion International Photography Festival, Cardiff; Robert Mann Gallery, NYC; Field Projects, NYC; Galerie Huit, Arles; Paper Positions Art Fair, Berlin; Marshall Contemporary, Santa Monica; Schneider Gallery, Chicago; Laney Contemporary, Savannah; and many others.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum; The Hood Museum; the JP Morgan Library Museum; the Clarinda Carnegie Museum; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
She is represented by Galerie Sit Down in Paris.
ADRIENNE MOUMIN | NEW YORK, NY • SILVER SPRING, NY
Chiclet, 2021.
Hand cut gelatin silver print collage,
13 x 9 inches framed
Unique.
$700 framed.
These handmade photo collages are part of an ongoing series begun in 2000, and they combine Moumin’s lifelong involvement with both silver-based photography and collage, as distinctly separate practices.
The inspiration for this series is the architecture and urban landscapes of Manhattan. What began as a ten-year documentary project about the growth of the west Chelsea arts district, continues still, as she remains captivated by the city’s architectural elements and vistas.
The photographs that she shoots in New York, she later transforms in her darkroom and collage studio in Maryland. This work helps me to reestablish my connection with New York, as she reviews and assimilates what she has experienced there. She also uses images of nature, store window interiors, and other subjects that evoke strong feelings of a time or place.
In this series, Moumin combines B&W film photography with cut-and-assembled handwork. She creates multiple gelatin silver prints of the same image, which are hand-cut and -assembled into 2-D and 3-D geometric abstract collages. While at first the works may appear to be digital montages, closer inspection reveals the texture and layering inherent in the handmade pieces.
These patterns could, with less effort, be created digitally. But it is Moumin’s love for darkroom work, and the hand-cutting and -arranging of visual elements, which drives this process. Since her first foray into this mode in 2000 with simple small-scale compositions, she has expanded her repertoire to include application of glass and crystal elements, complicated layering, using the paper’s natural curves for 3-D effects, and use of inkjet prints. During the Pandemic, she developed a hand-cut shaped stacked matboard technique to raise the photo construction above the substrate, and cast deep dramatic shadows.
Adrienne Moumin was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1961, and graduated from SUNY Empire State College in 1999, with a BA in Documentary Visual Studies and Society. She works primarily in hand-printed B&W photography, and handmade photo and mixed media collage. Moumin is best known for her "Architextures" photo collage series, inspired by New York architecture and urban landscapes, ongoing since 2000. Moumin is based in New York, NY and Silver Spring, MD. Her most recent solo exhibit was reviewed in 2024 in The Washington Post and Washington, DC CityPaper. She was awarded 2023, 2021 and 2016 Individual Artist Grants by the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County (MD), for the creation of large-scale photo collages, as well as 2022 and 2021 grants from the Maryland State Arts Council. Moumin’s work is in public and private collections throughout the US and Europe. In 2020, her photographic work was translated into a walk-in public art installation in Wheaton, Maryland.
YOGAN MULLER | LOS ANGELES, CA
Telotypes, 2023
Book – 9 x 12 x 96 inches 100 copies (self-published)
$45
Telotypes is an ode to Los Angeles and an homage to Lewis Baltz. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when Los Angeles ground to a halt, Muller photographed the pressure LA exerts on the landscape and its effect on people's psyches. The word 'telotype' that he forged with the Greek stems τέλος (end, boundary) and τύπος (mark, figure) is a nod to Baltz's "The Prototype Works." That word became a lens through which he captured my solastalgia–distress caused by the ecological crisis–and my embodied impression of living in a city that overshot the carrying capacity of the ecosystem that supports it.
Yogan Muller is a French-Algerian photographer, first-generation graduate, and educator based in Los Angeles. His work engages with the ecological crisis and its impact on landscapes and communities. Yogan works with photography, photogrammetry, drones, artificial intelligence, and the book form. His work is in the collection of Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Galerie Été 78 (Brussels, Belgium), and the Obscura Museum (Metaverse). Yogan has taught at UCLA Design Media Arts, the Penumbra Foundation in New York, and the University of Bordeaux in France.
NATIONAL MONUMENT PRESS | OAKLAND, CA
Dodeca Meters Complete Set, 2024
Collection of 12 Risograph printed photo booklets in a slip case.
8 x 5 inches each, in slip case 8 x 5 x 1.75 inches
Edition of 225.
$240
Dodeca Meters is a year-long publishing project featuring 12 booklets by 12 photographers, printed in a single color using risograph printing. Dodeca Meters exists to provide an archive of what is possible within the intersection of photography and risograph printing, through accessible multiples.
Dodeca Meters features the work of Sara J. Winston, tamara suarez porras, Anna Rotty, Ebti, Jamie Robertson, Makenzie Goodman, Saskia Kahn, Nicole White, Arielle Rebek, Kareem Worrell, Lindsay Buchman, & Nelson Chan.
Zach Clark is an Oakland, CA based artist, educator, and publisher. He received his BFA from University of Illinois Chicago, and MFA from University of California Davis. His work is rooted in locational memory and is based in the intersection of printmaking, photography, and publication. He publishes as National Monument Press, a publishing project focused on supporting uniquely American stories through small edition printed matter and curatorial projects, completed largely through collaboration with other artists. He is one half of Chute Studio, an Oakland based Risograph publishing studio. He is a lecturer at California State University East Bay, and has shown, worked, taught, and is in collections across North America, Europe, and Japan.
ELEANOR OAKES | DETROIT, MI
Semi/Semi, 2025
Salted paper print made with water from Semiahmoo Bay, WA,
9 x 13.5 inches framed
Edition of 4 + 1AP
$800
As a photographic artist Oakes’ studio practice reconsiders a feminist view of art history to address urgent issues of care, specifically around mothering and climate change. Current research captures these themes by innovating one of the first photographic processes ever invented, the salt print, by using material explorations with natural and artificial salts to create works that are specific to person, time, and place.
In the work presented here, salt is used as a lens through which we can view our material connection to each other and the earth through a shared mineral. It also demonstrates the interconnectedness of our global ecological systems, as water and air are fluid and have no consideration for borders. These works are made in collaboration with the environment, using salt water from oceans and bays as the salting solution in the process, coating paper in collaboration with waves. The imagery in each photograph is site specific, but it has been twisted into a new digital collage that references our human impact on the environment in our age of the Anthropocene, and the continued erosion of trust in the photographic image.
Our modern society overlooks care as something frivolous and sequestered, but this work seeks to expose care as a necessary building block, the key to meaningful connection to each other and our environment.
Eleanor Oakes is a photographic artist based in Detroit, MI, where she is Associate Professor and Section Lead of Photography at the College for Creative Studies. Oakes earned her MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University and a BA in Art and Art History from Princeton University. She has exhibited her work internationally, including solo exhibitions at Belle Isle Viewing Room (Detroit), and Tyler Wood Gallery (New York), and recent group exhibitions at the Houston Center for Photography (Houston), Filter Space (Chicago), and Silver Eye Center for Photography (Pittsburgh). She is the recipient of a Flourish Fund grant from Culture Source and the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Center Annual Award from the Houston Center for Photography, and a Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award from the San Francisco Foundation, among others.
STEPHANIE L. PAINE | LAFAYETTE, LA
Further Out (Than We Thought) II,
2023 Selenium-toned gelatin silver print,
20 x 24 inches, framed 20 x 24 inches,
Edition #1 of 2.
$1,200.
The series, "Further Out (Than We Thought)," is loosely inspired by Stevie Smith’s, "Not Waving but Drowning," a poem about miscommunication and its dire consequences. Paine uses the poem as a source of visual components - the human body and the sea - and seek to expand upon its standard interpretation by linking concepts of ecological dissonance with the environmental impact of industrial demands. In the photographs, scenes of crashing waves are intercepted with human hands and arms in positions that embody the water, embrace the ocean, or become engulfed by it. The prints were created from digital collages, transferred to a film negative, and traditionally printed on gelatin silver paper. By using a hybrid method of analogue imagery and digital technology, she was able to work nearly limitless in scale. This series intends to serve as a reminder of the interconnectedness of modern human life and the environment, while emphasizing the current instability of one our largest and most significantly shared resources, water.
Stephanie Paine is a visual artist and teaches photography in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Louisiana of Lafayette. She earned an MFA degree from Purdue University and shortly thereafter, relocated to Istanbul where she taught photography courses for six years. During this time, she was an artist in residence at Arteles in Finland, The Tsarino Foundation in Bulgaria, and Listhus House in Iceland. Her practice incorporates a range of photographic techniques that address the materiality of photography via themes of ecology and our connection to the environment. Her work has shown nationally and internationally at leading gallery spaces including, the Ogden Museum of Southern Arts in New Orleans, the SoHo Photo Gallery in New York, and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado. She earned honorary mention for the 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, and has been included in the book, "Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer" by Morgan Post (Routledge, New York, 2022).