"Lost & Found" by Rebecca Dietz (First Friday)

Un Grito Gallery is pleased to present "Lost & Found” a photographic series by Rebecca Dietz. A featured Fotoseptiembre event, this solo exhibition will open Thursday, September 5th and Friday, September 6th 2024, from 7-10 pm with a closing reception held on September 19th, 2024.

“I search for moments of mysticism in urban landscapes: locations where time feels displaced, neither past nor present. The camera is a device that traps time and bends light, freeing objects to create new stories within the photographic frame. This unknowing of the known world creates a crack through which the dreaming world infiltrates and enriches my daily existence. The traditional darkroom photographs from the series “Lost & Found” were collected over many years of wandering around Texas and into Mexico. Shot on film, most use pinhole or plastic Holga cameras. The imperfection of these cameras allow the real and imagined to co-exist through shifts in light, clarity, and spatial dynamics. The polaroid images were captured in Piedmont Cemetery, CA in the mid-1990s. The polaroids were briefly exposed to light mid-development by peeling them apart and pressing them back together, creating random shifts in light and color. The final images are digitally scanned and hand-transferred to metal plates. The unpredictable nature of these processes means some images flounder, while others find new life through this fusion of art and chance.”

Rebecca Dietz is a photo-based artist utilizing digital, darkroom, and hybrid processes to blend reality and imagination in her work. She received a BFA in Printmaking (1989) and an MFA in Photography (2005) from the University of Delaware. Her photographs transform the world into mysterious spaces, lost fragments, or chance encounters, freeing objects to create new stories within the photographic frame.

A tenured Professor of Art, Dietz has taught at San Antonio College (San Antonio, TX) since 2006. Her work has been included in curated exhibits at the San Antonio Museum of Art, UTSA Art Gallery, Blue Star Red Dot, the Southwest School of Art, and the Fotoseptiembre USA festival. Her series “Wonderworlds” was published in Borderlands, the Texas Poetry Review, and exhibited during the lecture series. National representation includes the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts and the Bigg’s Museum in DE, the Photo Review in PA, the Denver Airport in CO, and the Soho Gallery in Manhattan NY.