{"id":10059,"date":"2022-11-04T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10059"},"modified":"2022-11-03T19:57:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T23:57:33","slug":"mary-ellen-bartley-at-yancey-richardson-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/04\/mary-ellen-bartley-at-yancey-richardson-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Ellen Bartley at Yancey Richardson Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryellenbartley.com\/\">Mary Ellen Bartley<\/a>\u2019s photographs are not about the objects she pictures; blue-toned hardcover books are shot in ways that challenge spatial perception, for example, while a stack of paperbacks with multi-colored edges becomes a geometric abstraction.\u00a0 These transformations of ordinary objects into unique and thought-provoking arrangements of color and form connect Bartley with work by 20<sup>th<\/sup> century Italian artist Giorgio Morandi, who famously spent decades painting images of vessels as he explored the possibilities of representation.\u00a0 Begun during a residency at the Casa Morandi in Bologna and interrupted by the onset of the pandemic, Bartley\u2019s new work at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yanceyrichardson.com\/exhibitions\/mary-ellen-bartley4\/images?view=thumbnails\">Yancey Richardson Gallery<\/a> features books from Morandi\u2019s library.\u00a0 Like Morandi, Bartley delays our reading of each picture\u2019s components, sometimes by obscuring its components in a way that excites interest in the contents of the volumes and the possibilities of perception.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3064px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/875e8cd0-6ea9-b34e-5609-28c8f2a45557.jpg\" width=\"3064\" height=\"2098\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Ellen Bartley, Large White Bottle and Shadow, archival pigment print, ed of 7, 28 x 37 inches, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Ellen Bartley\u2019s photographs are not about the objects she pictures; 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