Semblance

Yossi Milo is pleased to announce Semblance, Alison Rossiter's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Alison Rossiter grounds her work in an expansive personal library of expired vintage and antique photo papers, directing a cameraless photography practice that intersects darkroom processes and archival research. Rossiter selects examples from this collection, which she strategically develops, exploiting each paper's extant capacity to render areas of light and dark. In the exhibition Semblance, the artist employs these methods to weigh progress and inspiration, grounding them in an allegiance between the black-and-white mechanics of her work and its echoes of Photographic, Minimalist, and Abstract Expressionist art. Drawing on source materials that largely originate from a range spanning the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Rossiter channels the artistic movements that unfolded across their lifetimes. The exhibition debuts Semblance, Man Ray Tapestry, a body of work in which Rossiter calls directly on a specific early artwork by artist Man Ray. Throughout the works in the exhibition, numerous prints show silver mirroring—a decades-long change in which the metallic silver tarnishes into foggy, luminous tones upon the paper surfaces.