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Liz Deschenes

American

1966, Boston, Massachusetts

Liz Deschenes artist portrait

Photo: Sonia Gil-Costa, courtesy the artist and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York

Artist Liz Deschenes explains her laborious technique for creating large-scale photograms at night. Each resulting work visually captures its “index” — the ambient light, weather, and other atmospheric conditions that played a role in the chemical process of its creation.

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