Linda Briskin

In this series—A Still Life—the compartments of the printers’ trays, once filled with letters for hand-setting type, now offer a home to miniature treasures. Such collections have a long history. Cabinets of Curiosities originated in the sixteenth century and housed oddities, art, and archaeological finds. The craftsmanship of each tiny perfection draws the viewer into the intimacy of a secret world, a step away from the chaos and clatter and chatter of unruly everyday spaces.

This series is in the tradition of conceptual and creative still life photography. With the printers’ trays as the frames, still life is re-imagined. What do these collections tell us about the collector?

Linda Briskin is a writer and fine art photographer. She is intrigued by the permeability between the remembered and the imagined, and the ambiguities in what we choose to see. She is also interested in the relationship between text and image. A fictional encounter between the objects on the printer’s tray in A Still Life (ii) and their owner, Miss Emma has been published in The Ekphrastic Review. 5 July 2022. 

Recently, her photographs have been published in PhotoEd, Persimmon Tree, Montréal Serai, ilanot Review, Humana Obscura, The Hopper, and Flare Journal, including a photo-essay Liminal Animism in Canadian Camera. Briskin’s work has been included in numerous online juried shows: recently in She (Texas), Intimate Landscapes at Collex Art and Winter Magic (Massachusetts). In 2021 and 2022, her photographs were chosen for the Herstory exhibit sponsored by Manhattan Arts International. 

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Contact: lbriskin@yorku.ca
Website: lindabriskinphotography.com

May 6th to May 28th, 2023
Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw St, Toronto
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