Denver’s biennial Month of Photography is in full swing now 📸
Brenda Biondo leads things off. One of the region’s most prolific picture-makers, Biondo’s work is inspired as much by painting and collage as it is by the history of photography itself. Her photos rarely look like photos; instead, they appear as present-day updates of the geometric abstraction movement that was popular in the U.S. and Europe in the 20th century. At first glance, a viewer would think they are oils or acrylics on canvas, or assembled cuts of paper.
Then she takes all of the secondary photos, sizes them similarly, and puts them together into grids or other patterns or formations and prints that out on aluminum sheets to produce the final work. For the piece titled “Modality 20,” part of a series, she combines 20 of her scenes together into a horizontal grid that stretches 5 feet wide.
Angela Faris Belt, whose work is installed in a separate gallery space, has her own distinct — and noteworthy — process. Her most sensational raw material consists of the cremated ashes of some unnamed loved one, which she manipulates in varying ways on flat surfaces before scanning them for her final work.
These objects are archival pigment prints technically. But what are they in essence? Photos? Photos of sand paintings? It is hard to tell, really. But they come together as very personal memorials to whomever it was that Faris Belt lost. Several people who have seen these images have asked her to make similar objects using the ashes of their own loved ones.
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