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Cathy Cone: Apparent Close-Up by April 8, 2023

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©Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” One, 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

Artist and Photographer Cathy Cone has recently opened the exhibition, Portals and Portraits, at the Brattleboro Museum in Brattleboro, Vermont that will run through June 11th, 2023. On May 11, at 7 p.m. there will be an Artist & Curator Conversation: Cathy Cone and Sarah Freeman. The exhibition features several projects, one featured here and today we feature, Portals.

Cone approaches photography with the idea of transformation. She has her hands in the physicality of photography, whether painting on tintypes or working with historic print processes in the darkroom. Cathy with her husband, master printer Jon Cone, founded Cone Editions Press in 1980 in Port Chester, NY as a collaborative printmaking workshop. Cone Editions Press is now located in East Topsham, Vermont where Cathy is director of the Workshops and Studio.

Curator Sarah Freeman shares about her Portals work: In her series of photogravures, Cone plays with our innate desire to connect with the portraits’ subjects. Obscuring the subjects’ faces with clouded or opaque layers of imagery, Cone creates a barrier that we cannot penetrate. Unable to fully perceive the faces portrayed, we are denied the intimacy that the portraits might otherwise allow. This push and pull between visibility and obscurity calls into question the very purpose of a portrait and invites us to consider the process of knowing and understanding ourselves and each other.

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Cathy Cone, Portals and Portraits Installation

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Cathy Cone, Portals and Portraits Installation

Cathy Cone is a photographer and painter. Her surrealist approach to photography began in the late 1970’s with the introduction of the “Diana” camera. This led to investigation of experimental techniques towards a multidisciplinary approach to her poetic image making. Cathy received her training at Ohio University, Vermont Studio Center. She received her MFA at the Maine Media College. Some of her exhibitions include Weisman Art Museum, University of Alabama, DeCordova Museum, the Griffin Museum of Photography and the  Vermont Center for Photography. Her works are in the collection of IBM, Hallmark Fine Art Collections, American Express, and the Beekman a Thompson Hotel, New York. Cathy with her husband, master printer Jon Cone, founded Cone Editions Press in 1980 in Port Chester, NY as a collaborative printmaking workshop. Cone Editions Press is now located in East Topsham, Vermont where Cathy is director of the Workshops and Studio.

Follow on Instagram: @cathy_cone

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Portals and Portraits includes select photographs from three distinct series that investigate the portrait. Many of us have immediate psychological reactions to the human face. The face is a primary way in which we connect with one another and is a creative portal for magic and alchemy. My intention is for each photograph not only to stand alone but also to converse with the other photographs in the same series. The portraits integrate media, including painted tintypes, photogravures, platinum prints, and archival pigment prints. I’m interested in the translations between these media and in the remixes of the subjects as a meditative inquiry.
Transforming and upgrading my consciousness, photography guides me to a deeper understanding of the world. I begin by discovering an image. The image emerges and appears as a rather strange surprise. This surprise is the charge that I take back into my studio as “something” found to translate. I then go to work by responding more directly to the image in order to rediscover through a new conscious intention. I want to connect and have my hand more  in it. The process of finding and constructing what I understand and know links up with what I don’t know or can’t see. If I’m lucky, they meld into a new image that lives on the threshold. – Cathy Cone
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©Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” Three, 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

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©Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” Four, 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

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©Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” Five, 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

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©Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” Six, 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

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©Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” Seven, 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

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©Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” Eight 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

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©Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” Nine, 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

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Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” Ten, 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

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Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” Eleven, 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

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Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” Twelve 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

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Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” Thirteen, 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

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Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” Fourteen, 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

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Cathy Cone “Apparent Close-Up Series” Fifteen 2022 13 1/2” x 10” image size Photogravure on 22” x 15” Copperplate natural white 300gsm paper Edition of 6

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