ROE ETHRIDGE (* 1969) - Floral Arrangements, 1997

7 chromogenic prints, framed

Each c. 38 x 28 cm

Each signed, titled and dated by the photographer in ink on the reverse

PROVENANCE Private Collection Zurich, originally from the exhibition "Floral Arrangements" (1997, Scalo Galerie, Zurich)

“The flowers are from a series I made slowly from 1995-1997. I had just finished college and had a 4 X 5 camera body with no lens. I also had no money, so I made a pinhole lens. The backgrounds are modified textiles, cheap fabric the patterns of which I ‘edited’ with acrylic paint. I bought the vases at a thrift store, painted them, and then would go to the farmers market and buy the cheapest flowers. I was really into the Becher school and anything ‘German photography’ at the time, but I was also into Matisse. I think I was trying to make a Matisse.” (Roe Ethridge, Interview in Artit Magazine, 2009)