End Grain: The Displaced Shadow

2022

Crown Point Press presents an exhibition of new photogravures by Bay Area artist/photographer Catherine Wagner. She completed her first project with Crown Point Press in the fall of 2021. Wagner is known for her observation and documentation of inanimate objects in series. She is interested especially in our collective history and the evidence of time’s passage and how culture is revealed through language and architecture. For her project at Crown Point she chose to work with small blocks of wood with their ends cut to emphasize the grain. "These elemental shapes serve as basic architectural gestures; foundational pieces constructed to define shape, space, and volume," Wagner said.

End Grain: The Displaced Shadow at Crown Point Press

Displaced Shadow I, 2021

A set of two photogravures printed in blue on gampi paper chine collé. Image size: 14 x 14". Paper size: 19 x 181⁄2". Edition 10.

Displaced Shadow II, 2021

A set of two photogravures printed in blue on gampi paper chine collé. Image size: 14 x 14". Paper size: 19 x 181⁄2". Edition 10.

Displaced Shadow III, 2021

A set of two photogravures printed in blue on gampi paper chine collé. Image size: 14 x 14". Paper size: 19 x 181⁄2". Edition 10.

Displaced Shadow IV, 2021

A set of two photogravures printed in blue on gampi paper chine collé. Image size: 14 x 14". Paper size: 19 x 181⁄2". Edition 10.

Displaced Shadow V, 2021

A set two of photogravures printed in blue on gampi paper chine collé. Image size: 14 x 14". Paper size: 19 x 181⁄2". Edition 10.

Language II–Displaced Shadows, 2021.

Photogravures printed in blue on gampi paper chine collé in an edition of 10 each. Image size: 181⁄2 x 38". Paper size: 251⁄2 x 44".

Language I

Photogravures printed in blue on gampi paper chine collé in an edition of 10 each. Image size: 181⁄2 x 38". Paper size: 251⁄2 x 44".

Spatial Verbs, 2021

Set of nine photogravures printed in blue on gampi paper chine collé. Image size overall: 29 x 271⁄4". Edition 10.

Still Wave, 2021.

Photogravure printed in blue on gampi paper chine collé. Image size: 23 x 23". Paper size: 30 x 29". Edition 10.

Catherine Wagner