Featured Exhibition Work
" Renate Aller, Commensalism"
- Artists:
- Renate Aller
Past Show : Sep 15-Oct 28 2023
Throughout Renate Aller’s career, her photographic inquiries have consistently shed light on our relationship to nature, how we inhabit the space, and how that space in turn inhabits us. “Commensalism” brings new focus on the landscape/figure relationship and sets up dynamic juxtapositions in the process, helping us see Aller’s unique vision.
Aller explains:
“Commensalism” is a relationship between organisms of different species in which one derives some benefit, while the other is unaffected nor harmed. Humans benefit from nature, and we should not harm it in return. We are part of nature, made stronger by our interconnectedness. Echoing the forms of the landscape, I pair an image of the human body to mirror our presence. Another way to look at it is the observation that we are hosts to microorganisms who are such a large part of us that we cannot define ourselves as being a separate entity.”
Known for her large scale photograph, “Commensalism” brings together expansive large scale imagery with smaller scale intimate figurative diptychs to tell the story. Also included are images printed on wood panels which lend their wood grain and atmosphere to the photographic image. This major exhibition of new work will present over twenty photographs and immerse the viewer in Aller’s vision of commensalism.
Exhibition Works
Commensalism, #1 & #2
by Renate Aller
2023
Photograph, archival pigment print, Ed 1/15
22.5 X 34 inches Framed
Inventory ID: # 17104
Commensalism, #5 & #6
by Renate Aller
2023
Photograph, archival pigment print, Ed 1/15
22.5 X 34 inches, each Framed
Inventory ID: # 17109
Commensalism, #7 & #8
by Renate Aller
2023
Photograph, archival pigment print, Ed 1/15
22.5 X 34 inches Framed
Inventory ID: # 17105
Commensalism, #9 & #10
by Renate Aller
2023
Photograph, archival pigment print, Ed 1/15
20 X 13.50 inches, each Framed
Inventory ID: # 17106
Commensalism, #3 & #4
by Renate Aller
2023
Photograph, archival pigment print, Ed 1/15
22.5 X 34 inches, each Framed
Inventory ID: # 17108
Commensalism, #13 & #14
by Renate Aller
2023
Photograph, archival pigment print, Ed 1/15
22.5 X 30.50 inches, each Framed
Inventory ID: # 17110
Commensalism, #12
by Renate Aller
2023
Photograph, archival pigment print, Ed 1/15
22.5 X 16 inches, each Framed
Inventory ID: # 17112
Commensalism, #11
by Renate Aller
2023
Photograph, archival pigment print, Ed 1/15
22.5 X 16 inches, each Framed
Inventory ID: # 17111
Commensalism, #15
by Renate Aller
2023
Photograph, archival pigment print, Ed 1/10
29.5 X 43 inches Framed
Inventory ID: # 17113
Commensalism, #16
by Renate Aller
2023
Photograph, archival pigment print, Ed 1/10
29.5 X 43 inches Framed
Inventory ID: # 17114
Commensalism, #17
by Renate Aller
2023
Photograph, archival pigment print, Ed 1/5
43 X 63 inches Framed
Inventory ID: # 17115
Plate 72
by Renate Aller
2023
Archival ink on ash wood, Ed 1/10
28 X 41.25 inches Framed
Inventory ID: # 17117
Juniper Tree #386
by Renate Aller
2023
Archival ink on ash wood, Ed 1/5
41.25 X 61.25 inches Framed
Inventory ID: # 17118
Juniper Tree #353
by Renate Aller
2023
Archival ink on ash wood, Ed 1/5
41.25 X 61.25 inches Framed
Inventory ID: # 17119
Juniper Tree #377
by Renate Aller
2023
Archival ink on ash wood, Ed 1/5
61.25 X 41.25 inches Framed
Inventory ID: # 17120
Juniper Tree #315
by Renate Aller
2023
Archival ink on ash wood, Ed 1/10
41.25 X 28 inches Framed
Inventory ID: # 17121