From Erin Cluley Gallery:

"ERIN CLULEY GALLERY is pleased to announce Transit of Light – a solo exhibition by New York based photographer Lynn Stern, the artist’s first with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view February 19th through March 26th, 2022 at the gallery’s main location, 150 Manufacturing Street, Suite 210. The gallery is open weekly Wednesday through Saturday, 12 – 5 PM and by appointment. An opening reception will be held Saturday February 19th, 5 – 8 PM with the artist in attendance.

New York City native Lynn Stern works with black and white film and indirect, natural light. Since 1985 she has been doing studio work, using a scrim of translucent white or black fabric, either alone to create pure abstractions, or combined with symbolic objects. Stern thinks of the backlit scrim as her ‘medium’; creating a glow of diffused light that is a constant in all of her work. 

In her solo exhibition, Transit of Light, Stern will present works from three series – Passage, Quickening, and Force Field – the last two of which are ongoing. Stern is manipulating the scrim, the objects, and the light – using gestural folds and working with the light to create a dramatic quality of luminosity in the photographs. Believing that photography is a medium of light, not representation, her aim is to express, through the light and sense of movement, something that is unseen, but felt.

Stern writes about her practice, “What initially attracted me to photography is the way a certain quality of indirect, natural light can be rendered in the black and white gelatin silver process. Unlike sunlight, which falls on things and emphasizes surface, this light is an ambient glow that seems to emanate from within and to be part of space itself.”

American art critic and poet, Donald Kuspit, has written an essay titled Wonder At Work:  Lynn Stern’s Abstract Photographs to be included in the catalogue being published on the occasion of the exhibition. Kuspit writes, "Stern's use of the camera [is] unprecedented. In her hands the camera becomes a visionary means rather than simply a means of recording everyday appearances. Everyday perception of the apparent object is suspended.... It is dematerialized, or as Kandinsky would say ‘spiritualized.’”

Lynn Stern’s exhibition will run concurrently with Will Murchison: Find the Beginning."