Uta Barth | Brooklyn Rail
Uta Barth, ...from dawn to dusk (December), 2022. Mounted color photographs (pigment prints), dimensions overall: 32 7/8 x 100 3/4 inches, edition of 6, 2AP. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
By Jessica Holmes
Throughout her long career, photographer Uta Barth has probed the limits of human perception through deceptively simple imagery. Sheer curtains, glass pitchers, or bare tree branches are only ostensible subjects, conduits for an ongoing examination of what is her primary implement: light. Her current show at Tanya Bonakdar includes selections of the artist’s work from over the past quarter-century, evincing her distinction as an emissary of light.