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The title of Rebeca Bollinger's current exhibition, Chaos of the Stars, derives from a line in Werner Herzog's film Heart of Glass and reflects the artist's interest in uncertainty, randomness, and the deeper forces at work in shaping our lives. In 14 photographs shot with a telephoto lens so as to pattern the unfocused areas with refracted light, Bollinger explores rendering the familiar foreign. Her process provocatively recontextualizes fragments of everyday reality and pushes the medium of photography in an undeniably painterly direction. The overtones of voyeurism in Bollinger's use of a telephoto lens are underscored by the razor-sharp focus on the unwitting and unaware passersby that inhabit her compositions.
Bollinger was born in 1960 in Los Angeles, California and obtained her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. She has exhibited widely at venues ranging from the Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany to the Sonia Henie Onstad Museum in Oslo, Norway - as well as the Orange County Museum (California Biennial, 2003), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SECA Award in Electronic Media, 1996), and the Pacific Film Archive. Bollinger's work is included in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the MH de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco and the San Jose Museum of Art.
Click here for Rebeca Bollinger's biography.
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