INDUSTRY OF LIGHT: NEGATIVE
Wm HUNDLEY

Education: BFA Studio Art/Painting, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 1998, Dean’s List Graduate.

X FARRAR

Education: BFA Fine Art Photography, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 1999.

 

William Hundley is a painter by training and X Farrar is a fine art photographer. Together as INDUSTRY OF LIGHT they have focused their attention on the process of photography, achieving "painterly" photographs by staging photo-sessions with various colored lights, strobes, and lots of spontaneous action.

One year after their debut exhibition, INNOCENT X, Hundley and Farrar are back with an entirely new body of work called NEGATIVE.

Still focused on "painting with light" Hundley and Farrar say their photographic work was shot with the intention of printing the negative. Speaking about their process Hundley says, "we started with Cy Twombly's idea of representing a thought with drawing black lines on white paper; for us white light is the pencil that draws in a dark room which becomes white." Abstraction is a key operating term in this body of work. Whereas, images from the INNOCENT X Series focused on the human figure, it is absent in these new images. Says the duo, "working through the learning process we arrived at a final abstract composition that appears to have been painted or drawn."

Hundley and Farrar are very process focused and as such were willing to use both digital and chemical photographic means to achieve their images. Says Farrar, "Toggling between the two cameras, digital and chemical, gave us an insight as to just what kind of chemical reaction we could expect from the color negative film being used."

Joe Arredondo, Director
June 2002