"Betty (from Permanent Collection)" by Tim Davis

""All art ends up as photographs," Tim Davis has pointed out, "and in a strange misalignment, most of those photographs depict only the artworks' images, not the fact of their material presence." Tim Davis' new photographs of paintings are phenomenological, relishing in the materiality of the paint and the history and labor embedded in the canvas. Made in American museums, they are photographed from oblique angles so light from existing museum sources changes the often-reproduced meaning of these works, adding light to familiar narratives, and blotting out anticipated images. In a move unfamiliar to photography, the light in these pictures is often used to obscure, as well as to illumine."