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Lynne Harty & Billy Sproul
Our Translucent Solution
Steel, wood and photographic transparencies
A unique collaboration featuring a custom-built stand and base from Billy Sproul that displays abstractimages from photographer Lynne Harty.
The artists have generously offered Saturday delivery (November 8) toAshevillearea buyers. The door has been selected to be featured at a Hatchfest fundraising event on November 7 to illustrate the concept of construction/deconstruction.
Lynne is a commercial and fine art photographer fromAsheville. While she makes a living photographing people and places for advertising agencies, small businesses and magazines, her personal work is what keeps her most interested in photography. Lynne has created a series of colorful digitally altered images of downtownAsheville that she sells at Mobilia, and the success of those images has led her to branch out to more abstract subject matter in the same colorful style.
I enjoy playing with color, texture and pattern - in this case, I photographed man-made materials that nature has aged to give me those elements to work with. Billy and I have created a piece that alludes to the purpose of a door, which opens us up to new experiences in our world and our artwork. By collaborating with Billy, I was able to create transparent new images that were reliant on each other as pieces of the whole and that interact with the space where they will live.
Billy is an artist/fabricator of found object steel sculpture and concrete and steel furniture. He is currently working on a series of mechanical and kinetic "contraptions" he hopes to unveil in Asheville in 2009. Billy's steel furniture and concrete counter business goes by the name of Slab-Fab-Studio. Some examples of simple, yet elegant, concrete and steel furniture are featured at Dwellings here in Asheville.
I have chosen to focus on steel and concrete because of these materials’ nearly limitless versatility. I wanted to provide a unique setting for Lynne Harty's photography, in the form of a sculptural "door". The challenge for me was to try to create a compelling and intriguing structure, yet something that remained a backdrop for Lynne's work. It seems that part of a good collaboration is having the partnership throw you a curve, taking production out of one's personal comfort zone. Perhaps then artwork can become larger than the sum of the artistic participants’ intentions.
www.billysproul.com
www.slab-fab-studio.com
