Mix and mingle with three artists currently displaying works in the "Sweet Emulsion" exhibition: Liz Nielsen, Joanne Dugan, and Shaina Gates, in addition to artist Michael Miga, currently displaying "100 Seconds by Michael Miga"
In "Sweet Emulsion," each artist approaches photography as a material practice rather than a descriptive tool.
- Joanne Dugan works with silver-based analog processes to produce images that behave as objects—dense, tactile, and quietly sculptural—where light and chemistry accumulate into meditative form.
- Shaina Gates creates vibrant cameraless abstractions through folded photograms and direct exposure, allowing geometry, color, and chance to emerge from physical interaction with photosensitive surfaces.
- Liz Nielsen harnesses light itself as a generative force, producing unique chromogenic works and photograms whose saturated color and spatial ambiguity dissolve photographic reference.
In "100 Seconds by Michael Miga," Miga's abstract Polaroid works emerge from interventions in the medium itself, exploring how chemical and physical actions (such as applying pressure, heat, or other treatments to the emulsion) can yield unpredictable and painterly effects, dissolving the boundary between photography and mark-making. This approach aligns with a wider field of experimental instant photography in which artists manipulatePolaroid and other instant film to create visual surfaces where chance and technique converge.
