Nebulous

Ephraim Puusemp

February 5 - March 26, 2022

CMay gallery is pleased to present Nebulous, a three-piece installation by Los Angeles based artist Ephraim Puusemp. This is Puusemp's first exhibition with the gallery. 

The history of astronomical observation is intricately connected to the act of drawing.  Early humans drew the familiar patterns of constellations on rock walls.  With the invention of the first telescopes, the astronomers represented their observations with pen or pencil on paper, often portraying the pinpoints of starlight as dark marks upon a field of white.  Years later, cameras and astrophotography would produce glass negatives in which black galaxies were suspended in endless fields of white empty space. 

In this new body of work, Ephraim Puusemp has produced images created through a complex process of translation. Using images photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, he has rendered drawings in negative by applying thousands of black dots on white paper.  Next, the drawings have been photographed and treated as the negatives through which three large scale photographic prints have been produced.  While these images present convincing photographic representations of galaxies and nebulae, they are entirely man made, shaped by an interpretive human process: the act of drawing.

Selected Works

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