Ghosts

Artist Darryl Curran (born 1935)

Date1976

MediumVan Dyke Brown print on paper

Dimensions21 3/4 × 15 inches (55.2 × 38.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Artist, 2016

Object number2016.8.1.1

ClassificationsPhotographs

Label TextGhosts shows how Darryl Curran experimented with the photographic medium. For this work, he layered imagery. He used enlarged negatives from the 35-millimeter size and a double exposed vintage family negative. Then he contact printed with an unfiltered Black Light fluorescent source. His work hints at a surreal narrative. What story can you construct? Connect this work with Walter Ufer’s Fantasies.

ProvenanceArtist; gifted July 13, 2016 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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