NY ARTS
June 1999

Tenesh Webber from May 27 through June 26
@Thatcher Projects, 529 West 20th Street. 9th Floor,
(212) 675-0222

Tenesh Webber exhibits eight photographs that suggest blossoms, maze forms, and planets. In fact, her subject matter often includes everyday objects that are carried to the threshold of abstraction by way of motion blurs and layered-negative printing In the tradition of the rayogram (Ms Webber has recently concluded a series of prints in the medium). These pieces reflect an experimental sensibility where certain results are left to chance. Ms Webber has expressed interest in the work of Franz Kline, and although she photographs objects in the round, her figuration reads as almost calligraphic white marks on a black ground. These white marks assume a number of painterly qualities that range from washes to saturated application of pigment. The large scale of her work is also a vehicle toward abstraction. Small objects become complex worlds that embody many intriguing contradictions.
-Rothbart