Jenny Okun

Craig Krull Gallery has been exhibiting the photographic work of Jenny Okun since 1991, in the pre-digital era when she invented her extraordinary layering of images by “simply” advancing the film in her camera by small increments between exposures. Her multiple exposures combined architectural elements in cubistic fashion and she embraced the sections that were over or under exposed as aspects of the photographic process. She states, “looking at architecture is like listening to music. Both are dramatic forms that reveal multiple, repeating themes. Above all, both require time. Just as a symphony cannot be experienced in a few seconds, it is impossible to see a whole building at once.” Her images are a filmic deconstruction of architecture, a distillation of elements into a new, harmonious composition of successive forms in time and space. The exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery will focus on Okun’s interpretations of three masterpieces of Frank Gehry, The Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Gehry’s sweeping curves and deconstructivism are clearly complementary to Okun’s methodology.