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INDUSTRY OF LIGHT: NEGATIVE
Wm HUNDLEY

Education: BFA Studio Art/Painting, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 1999, Dean’s List Graduate.

X FARRAR

Education: BFA Fine Art Photography, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 1999.

Exhibitions:

2002
12 to Watch, Gallery 1313, Austin
AMODA 1st Anniversary Digital Showcase, Texture, Austin
Gallery Artists Show
Joseph Raj Gallery, Austin
Electricity & Me: MD, Gallery Lombardi, Austin

2001
AMODA Digital Showcase, Red Fez, Austin
Electricity & Me: New Technology vs. Old Techonology, Gallery Lombardi, Austin
DIGITAL: Summer Group Show, Joseph Raj Gallery, Austin
Erotica XXX, Gallery Lombardi, Austin
Bitter End Film Festival, Austin
INNOCENT X, Joseph Raj Gallery, Austin

2000
SWT Alumni Show, San Marcos.

1999
IV Art Space, San Antonio.
Lombardi Gallery, Austin.
Stan Korn Gallery, Austin

1996
All Student Art Exhibition at SWT, San Marcos.

William Hundley is a painter by training and X Farrar is a fine art photographer. Together as INDUSTRY OF LIGHT they have focused their attention on the process of photography, achieving "painterly" photographs by staging photo-sessions with various colored lights, strobes, and lots of spontaneous action.

One year after their debut exhibition, INNOCENT X, Hundley and Farrar are back with an entirely new body of work called NEGATIVE.

Still focused on "painting with light" Hundley and Farrar say their photographic work was shot with the intention of printing the negative. Speaking about their process Hundley says, "we started with Cy Twombly's idea of representing a thought with drawing black lines on white paper; for us white light is the pencil that draws in a dark room which becomes white." Abstraction is a key operating term in this body of work. Whereas, images from the INNOCENT X Series focused on the human figure, it is absent in these new images. Says the duo, "working through the learning process we arrived at a final abstract composition that appears to have been painted or drawn."

Hundley and Farrar are very process focused and as such were willing to use both digital and chemical photographic means to achieve their images. Says Farrar, "Toggling between the two cameras, digital and chemical, gave us an insight as to just what kind of chemical reaction we could expect from the color negative film being used."

Joe Arredondo, Director
June 2002