Stuart Allen
Images from Stuart Allen’s Baja Series
I’m really into Stuart Allen’s Baja series of photographs (examples above). Allen explains:
“All of the photographs is this series are small sets of pixels extracted from a single digital photograph, taken by the artist in Baja California, Mexico in 2003. Titles indicate the section of the original photograph from which the pixels are taken. Aside from a dramatic increase in scale, the pixels have not been modified or re-arranged.”
In a nod to Josef Albers, Allen’s photographs consist of flat squares of color – each one a pixel.They are sort of like anti-snapshots.Rather than capturing anything and everything, Allen edits images down to the point of pure color and form.
The images tread the line between the artist’s hand and happenstance.I like the idea of extracting recognizable content and using color out of context to describe a place.
To see more of his work, visit http://www.stuartallen.info
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