Brittany Nelson: Alternative Process

NOVEMBER 5 – DECEMBER 17, 2016:
David Klein Gallery, 1520 Washington Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, is pleased to announce the opening of Alternative Process, an exhibition of new photographic work by BRITTANY NELSON. A reception for the artists will take place on Saturday, November 5th, 6 – 8 pm.

According to Brittany Nelson Alternative Process was created around ideas of time as a physical quantity. The body of work focuses on the major themes of communication, future artifacts, abstraction and the history of photography. The exhibition features a collection of tintypes produced on brushed silver aluminum that contain various recreations and reinterpretations of science graphics. Nelson uses the tintype, a 19th Century photographic process, to create a dialogue between the historic genre and contemporary abstraction. With the tintype process as with her Mordancage process, Nelson uses toxic materials to produce the texture and color evident in the finished work. The tintype imagery is taken from Photoshop screen captures of geometric renderings, referring back to the scientific graphics.

Brittany Nelson is a graduate of Montana State University and received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work is in numerous private collections as well as the collections of the Cranbrook Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, New Mexico State University, and the Candela Gallery Collection. She is a 2015 Creative Capital Grantee. Nelson lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.