4/8/2023 0 Comments Dexture mccall photoThe seemingly spontaneous found images are reframed to reveal gestures of unfinished stories and convey memory in a narrative form. In the series Home Movies, I am creating segmented imagery to explore connections between the passage of time, transition/transformation, loss, and memory. I came to discover that each filmed story was a testimony to the past, loss, love, and memory - a memory that could be revisited over and over again and reanimated on demand. The simple cinematic narratives in the found movies intrigued me as I wondered what made these occasions so important that they would be immortalized on film? The recordings of benign family trips, scenic skylines, and everyday life were so iconic and yet mysterious the unfamiliar places and unnamed people seemed lost in their anonymity. ©Molly McCall, Two steps forward, from In the In-BetweenĪfter collecting vintage snapshots for decades, I began to notice discarded home movies in flea markets and antique shops that grabbed my attention. As I artistically engage with these painted images, I am building my own visual language through color theory, scale, and texture to elicit an emotional response and to activate a new context. This series is an exploration of the past and the transition to the present. Color and mark-making are also used to emphasize or diminish certain elements of the photographic image, similar to the deterioration and fading of physical and material things over time. The series integrates my interest in art history, color theory, and found imagery. ![]() The original painted images are printed in reverse photographically, and then painted abstractly, compressing and expanding the connections between the passage of time, transition, transformation, and memory. In the series In the In-Between, I am combining early European masters’ paintings with modern technology, photographic techniques, and surface to juxtapose the past and the present. The idea of exploring the use of paintings as photography came out of the question “What is a photograph?” I began by using early European masters’ paintings in a photographic context to create a dialogue between the two mediums and investigate the sense of time and the historical gap between them. ©Molly McCall, Before and Back Again, from In the In-Between ![]() She resides in Carmel Valley California with her husband Gordon and their German Shorthaired Pointers. In 2018, Molly will have a solo exhibition at the Center of Fine Art Photography. Molly McCall’s work is in various private collections, has been featured in Architectural Digest magazine, and has been in exhibitions across the country, including the Center of Fine Art Photography, The Center for Contemporary Arts, The Image Flow, and the Museum of the Big Bend. After nearly two decades in the clothing business, Molly returned to painting and darkroom photography. ![]() She started painting and photography at an early age, and later attended Laguna Beach School of Art. Molly’s earliest influence on art making came from her great grandfather, an illustrator for the New York Times, and grandfather, a professional watercolorist in Southern California. With a family influence in clothing, she began her creative career designing her own label and selling to numerous specialty boutiques including Henri Bendel in New York, Fred Segal in Los Angeles, and Nordstrom, where she was awarded their most favored designer in California. Today I feature two of her series, In the In-Between and Home Movies, each mining a different set of found imagery in order to add to her visual narrative.īorn in Monterey California, Molly McCall was surrounded by ifamous photographers and the West Coast Landscape tradition. ![]() Her mark making and color palette create a particular language of seeing and considering portraits and movie stills. Artist Molly McCall, who I met at the at the 2017 Photo Alliance One World Portfolio Reviews, uses found photographs as the basis for her art, but she also plays with the long relationship of paintings and photographs by using photographs of paintings to create…paintings that use photographs as the basis of her subject matter. And just as a camera is a tool, so are photographs. ©Molly McCall, Baby Doll, from In the In-BetweenĪs a friend recently reminded me, a camera is simply a tool for making art.
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