Join us for a book signing and conversation with photographer Gerald Incandela. A new retrospective of Incandela’s work, Gerald Incandela: Photographic Drawings, will be on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, Connecticut) until May 10. Copies of his new publication, Gerald Incandela, will be available for purchase. A book signing with the artist will follow the talk.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Santa Barbara-based artist Gerald Incandela was born in Tunisia, and credits his love of art to his childhood, exploring the antique shops of the Tunis medina. He went on to study philosophy and art history in France. He’s recognized for his unique artistic process, which blends drawing, photography, and painting. In the darkroom, Incandela transforms the images captured with the lens of his camera by creating new compositions through the combination of multiple negatives in a panorama-like effect. While developing the large format, black and white prints, Incandela selectively applies developer and fixer on paper with a brush, as to reveal and animate selected elements of the captured image. This process allows him to create both warm and cool tones on the same unique master print. Transforming the chemistry of photography into a charcoal or ink-like media and using a drawing-like process, Incandela employs his own bold, meaningful gestures to portray and retrace his subjects, conveying his intuitive understanding and visual exploration of them.