Barbara Cole is a Toronto-based, self-taught photographic artist, who has built an extraordinary career in image making. Cole’s innovation is in her underwater photography; she states “water becomes a natural lens that refocuses and reinterprets the painterly aesthetic.” Following the success of White Noise and Underworld, Chromatics marks Cole’s growing interest in colour abstraction. In this series, she has progressed towards a near-total dissolution of the figure, referencing and reinterpreting mid-century colour field painting. The result is a dramatic tension between the figure and form that tests the nature of photography and its impact on our experience of reality.
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