Lynn Marie Kirby
2021St. Ignatius Church Exposure: Lenten Light Conversions
Lynn Marie Kirby
Lynn Marie Kirby’s Lenten Light Conversions is a “hybrid” work, created first by exposing raw film to light inside St. Ignatius during the forty days between Lent and Easter, then edited on digital video. --Michelle Hyun
St. Ignatius Church Exposure: Lenten Light Conversions
Black Belt Test Exposure: Senpai James Finds His Line
Lynn Marie Kirby
The filmic material was exposed, as the title suggests, at a martial arts expo in which Kirby’s young son James was undergoing his black belt examination. Here, saturated color frames reminiscent of the earlier exposure-works are disrupted by pure black-and-white scan lines and video feedback. It is a summary work, combining techniques from several different phases of Kirby's practice, and this allows Kirby’s improv strategy to achieve a new level of freedom, with certain expected formal gestures disrupted by whole new frames of reference. (Michael Sicinski)
Black Belt Test Exposure: Senpai James Finds His Line
Golden Gate Bridge Exposure: Poised for Parabolas
Lynn Marie Kirby
This evocative abstract work was created with a series of what could be considered "wrong" actions. First the artist exposed blank, undeveloped 16mm film to sunlight on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The film was then converted to video without removing any of the typically undesirable elements of the moving image: the head and tail of the film, the video scan lines, and other remnants and visual noise. Each element is instead emphasized, and they become primary visual components of the work. The resulting images flashing on the screen are as fleeting as the sunlight they record and as fragmented as the collective memory of an American landmark.
Golden Gate Bridge Exposure: Poised for Parabolas
Karate Class Exposure: Three Variations
Lynn Marie Kirby
First made as part of an evening of video and performance engaging the teacher/student relation, with my former student Harrell Fletcher, my son James and his karate teacher, Sensai Shanas. Here the video is comprised of three sections, which may play together as one piece or as stand-alone works. (Lynn Marie Kirby)
Karate Class Exposure: Three Variations