The Arts Center at Duck Creek will present Residual Light, a collaborative group exhibition that brings together female artists that work with alternative process and camera-less photography. The exhibition opens May 9 and will remain on display through June 14, with an opening reception on May 9 from 5 to 7 p.m. Additionally, a hands-on Cyanotype & Lumen Print Demo will be offered on Sunday, May 17 from 12 to 1:30 p.m., and an Artist’s Talk will be held on Sunday, June 14 at 3 p.m. in the John Little Barn.
The group of female artists includes Andrea Cote, Kaitlyn Danielson, Debora Francis, Galina Kurlat, Amanda Marchand, Anne Arden McDonald, Wendy Small and Shoshannah White. Embracing analog methods not just as tools but as collaborators, these artists allow chance, materiality, and process to shape their outcomes. Through this lens, the work celebrates experimentation and the unexpected. Each artist pushes the medium beyond traditional boundaries of representation into realms of the sublime, the abstract and the unknown.
Rooted in the natural world, the celestial, and the body, the exhibition feels urgently of this moment: a quiet but powerful counterpoint to a world marked by political uncertainty, ecological fragility, and a collective reckoning with systems long in need of change.
“We’re excited to introduce these artists’ experimental work to the East End community. Duck Creek’s historic John Little Barn that was once an artist’s studio – a place for creative exploration – is a perfect setting for these artists’ work that traces back to early historical photographic processes, bringing a contemporary approach and curiosity. At this time when one can generate and manipulate a digital image in seconds, these artists engage with a slow, tactile and absolutely present way of camera-less creation with light,” shares Andrea Cote, co-curator of Residual Light.
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