For Brooklyn-based artist Eileen Quinlan, photography is not about passive recording. In a series of 24 images pinned directly to the wall, she degrades the surface of her negatives by both allowing the developing process to go awry and scratching with steel wool to create abstractions that emphasize the medium as a process. (At Miguel Abreu Gallery on the Lower East Side through Dec 8th).
Eileen Quinlan, installation view of ‘Curtains’ at Miguel Abreu Gallery, Nov 2013.