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New City Art 03/06/2024

ArtDaily 28/05/2024

New City Art 13/01/2023

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..Opera defamiliarizes the cyanotype while operating firmly within its photochemical parameters: instead of objects glowing white against a telltale cyan background, dark forms are set graphically on textured...

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Higher Pictures

..[2] Firmly tethered to the fundamentals of photography, Opera throws his work into a dialogue with the tradition of painting without disavowing his primary medium鈥檚 most essential properties...

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Higher Pictures

..Opera subsequently builds upon this indexical foundation, adding painted layers that frame and shape the photographic material while also creating foreground/background relationships within each composition...

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Document Gallery

..When creating works in the former category, Opera nearly takes an ironic jab at the genre鈥檚 tropes but ultimately smartly reworks his references, particularly in the show鈥檚 centerpiece, Zoar, 2006鈥2008...

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Andrew Rafacz Gallery

..Opera has been working with the cyanotype-on-linen process since 2011, rigorously exploring the visual and conceptual possibilities opened up by the elision of photography and painting...

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