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MEGHANN RIEPENHOFFMeghann Riepenhoff (b. 1979, lives and works in Bainbridge Island, WA) creates her cameraless cyanotypes in collaboration with nature. The artist coats paper with homemade cyanotype emulsion and places them in the landscape — along the shore, over branches, packed in snow, or in freezing bodies of water. As they make direct contact with the photographic materials, rain, waves, wind, and sediment leave physical inscriptions on paper, creating complex, azure surfaces. Each resulting work is a unique record of a place and time that is both literal and abstract, and a portrait of nature at its most sublime.
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Meghann Riepenhoff
Littoral Drift #1483 (Triptych, Stinson Beach, CA 06.13.19, Crashing Waves, Wild Winds), 2019
Unique Dynamic Cyanotype
Triptych, each: 88 x 42 inches / Overall: 88 x 128 inches
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A sister series to Littoral Drift, Ecotone also engages dynamic photographic materials in the landscape, but collaborates with surface precipitation — rain and snow, ice and fog — rather than ocean waves or running water in the landscape. The pieces record the movement of water through the planetary surface, tracing both natural and built topographies.
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Meghann Riepenhoff
Ecotone #847 (Ashford, WA 03.05-08.2020, Mixed Precipitation), 2020
Unique Dynamic Cyanotype
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Riepenhoff’s most recent Ice works are made in freezing landscapes, from Walden Pond to remote creeks in western Washington. Each print is full of subtle details, each expressing a slightly different temperature, type of water, and crystalline structure of ice forming on photographic paper.
The work is the subject of the artist's latest monograph, Ice (2022), published by Radius Books. -
Meghann Riepenhoff
Ice #231 (-3-42°F, Colorado River, CO 12.18.21-12.21.21), 2021
Unique Dynamic Cyanotype
Triptych, each: 42 x 30 inches / Overall: 42 x 92 inchesSold
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