New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
September 6, 2024–March 30, 2025
Light and shadows, landscapes, voids, and reversals; the subjects of upcoming resident Fritz Horstman’s forthcoming exhibition are simultaneously very much of the everyday world and also something less easily defined. His Folded Cyanotypes are a series of two-dimensional objects, which carry the memory of light, three-dimensional space, and manual manipulation. His U-Shaped Valley sculptures began while looking at glaciers in Svalbard, north of the Arctic Circle. Instead of recreating glaciers, he began making sculptures that took on the shape of the land below the glaciers.
Image: Fritz Horstman, Folded Cyanotype 243, 2023. Cyanotype fluid on paper, 11 1/4 x 21”. Courtesy of the artist.