Interview with Curator Lauren Szumita on This is (Still) the Golden Age for Worcester Art Museum

I was interviewed recently by Lauren Szumita, Curatorial Assistant of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at Worcester Art Museum as part of the Central Massachusetts Artist Initiative. An excerpt of the conversation:

LS: We are excited to feature works from your series This is (Still) the Golden Age at WAM. Can you explain more about the process of creating this series?

MG: I wanted to create an image where the light was both the subject and the object. I began by thinking about the crossover between broadcast media and photography. On a primary level, photographs record the absence or presence of light. As contact prints (or photograms), these are a direct index of an object, but they also have the artist’s desire to have touched, which is an artistic gesture. What one sees is the recent absence of the object touching the light-sensitive surface–its residual shadow. The television image, the electronic image, its transmission exist in a continuum within the larger electromagnetic spectrum of which visible light is a small fraction.

Read more of the interview at Worcester Art Museums Updates.

Works from This is (Still) the Golden Age will be on display in Sidney and Rosalie Rose Gallery at the Worcester Art Museum through March 29, 2020.