christine lebeck

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Christine Lebeck’s work has been widely exhibited in group exhibitions throughout the United States and had a Solo show in New York in 2007 titled, “Nocturnes”.  Her work focuses on the passage of time and uses the camera as an apparatus of observation.  Whether in the confines of her own bedroom or long meandering river, she uses long exposures to create memories using a painterly palette. She is currently a participant in the Artist in the Marketplace Program (AIM) at the Bronx Museum and will be included in a group show there in June of 2009.  Christine will also be exhibiting her work in a three person show at The Heights Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio entitled “Night Light” in June of 2009. At the Silver Works Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania she will exhibit her “Nocturnes” series in June of 2009. She has been on the faculty of The International Center of Photography since 2001.  She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. 


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The series Sleep, comes from an ongoing desire to document my life.  I am interested in preserving as well as creating memories for myself.  I use the camera as an apparatus of observation.  Using long exposures, whether they be a full eight hours of sleep or a short mid-day rest, I try to collect time, capturing all these moments and compressing them into an image.  As I enter my bed I open the camera’s shutter and then close it when I wake, capturing the entire length of my rest onto a single sheet of film.  Even while I am motionless and deep in slumber, I am transitioning through time and recording the journey. I seek to capture more than just a moment of this journey but a collection of these moments, accumulated on top of each other like the application of paint to a surface. Each individual moment of time is a layer helping to create the finished painting. The result is the accumulation of the passing of time while I was in another consciousness. These images represent a visual memory for myself of an event that I have no personal recollection of. 


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