Sheree Hovsepian: The Altogether.

As the title suggests – “in the altogether” denotes a state of nudity – the artist lays bare, quite literally, her medium and methods, a gesture further reflected by the incorporation of images of the human form. Gathering remnants of photograms and silver gelatin photographs of body parts, Hovsepian then wraps her compositions in nylon fabric, creating multilayered assemblages contained in the shadowbox of a walnut artist’s frame. The physical stretching of the fabric echoes the corporeal act of the dark room, and results in apertures of negative space through which the underlying elements are booth seen and suggestively hidden – a photographic burleseque in which the artist peels back the layers of her practice precisely in order to put them back, at once revealing and concealing.