Brighton Photo Fringe Open'11

I went to see the penultimate day of the Brighton Photo Fringe Open'11 exhibition at the Phoenix Gallery. It was on from 19th November to 18th December and I thought It would be a good idea to go along before it ended. The exhibition brought together a diverse group of artists to explore different perspectives on critical issues emerging from contemporary photographic practice.

The exhibition space was very small in itself however there was a vast amount of space to view the artists work. I had never came to this exhibition before but it really caught my eye to want to come back again. The space was very clean and open. The various rooms built into a walkthrough contained different types of imagery, from photographic sculpture to illusional pieces.

The first lot of work I saw was by Alexander Nicholas Gehring; an interesting approach to photography using only the shades black and red. They were all created from C-Prints in 2011 and consisted of very bold and contracting streaks of red light upon a dark room or background. They were certainly my favorite pieces of work in the gallery.

The next section of the Open'11 Gallery contained three A0 photographs and a pile of A4 sheets of paper. From looking at the photographs I could see that they were very pixilated and included a lot of noise distortion. Later I found out that they had been printed on Xerox paper. This meant that they would have been cheaply produced and for some specific reason. I personally really liked them because they were not sharp in the slightest, they almost conveyed lovely texture.

There were also several other places within the exhibition space that I looked and viewed. There was one section that did not involve photographs but objects, i don't know whether this was part of the Brighton Photo Fringe gallery but i found it interesting. It contained a brief description and some "Practical Electronics". I had done an A level in Electronics so I was quite amazed to see a series of old equipment. 

I had a great time looking around and wanted to come back again somewhen. I was going to head of to a "New Art Exhibition" by the famous Ronnie Wood, but when I got there I had run out of time and it had already shut. That exhibition was in one of the shops in the lanes but also ended over the weekend.