Osceola Refetoff

Osceola Refetoff KINEMATIC EXPOSURES

Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to announce Kinematic Exposures, an exhibition featuring Osceola Refetoff’s ethereal pinhole camera works. The term Kinematic Exposure was coined by the artist to describe the handheld exposures he makes while moving about with a pinhole camera. Most of the images featured in this exhibition were all taken during a recent trip to Antarctica.

Osceola Refetoff’s images exist within traditional means – landscape, portraiture, editorial – and are variously produced using film, digital, infrared, and pinhole exposures, according to what best expresses the character of his subjects. Thus, despite his documentarian impulses and the fact that his images deliberately depict quite ordinary, even mundane, subjects, he trains on them a hyper-realistic and nuanced vision, often yielding surreal, even dreamlike images. His process generally happens “in camera,” at the moment of capture, in a kind of alchemical reaction that transforms the external world into something both unchanged and extraordinary, realistic and magical.

Refetoff was born in Montreal. He now lives and works in Los Angeles. Since 1995, his work has been widely exhibited, including institutions like the San Diego Art Institute, Palm Springs Art Museum and Museo Area Archeologica Arte Contemporaena (Italy), and regularly reviewed in publications such as Artillery, The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, and The British Journal of Photography.

Osceola Refetoff, The Persistence of Being #4 (after Giacometti)

2020
Archival Pigment Print
15 x 10 inches (38.1 x 25.4 cm)
unique (Cobalt/Blue)

$2400 unframed

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Osceola Refetoff, The Persistence of Being #3 (after Giacometti)

2020
Archival Pigment Print
15 x 10 inches (38.1 x 25.4 cm)
unique (Magenta/Pink)

$2400 unframed

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Osceola Refetoff, The Persistence of Being #2 (after Giacometti)

2020
Archival Pigment Print
15 x 10 inches (38.1 x 25.4 cm)
unique (Sky/Lime)

$2400 unframed

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Osceola Refetoff, The Persistence of Being #1(after Giacometti)

2020
Archival Pigment Print
33 x 22 inches (83.8 x 55.9 cm)
unique (Red/Sunshine)

$4800 unframed

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Osceola Refetoff, Proteus Rising, Antarctica

2020
Archival Pigment Print
19 x 16 inches (48.3 x 40.6 cm)
1 of 20

$1500 unframed

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Osceola Refetoff, Wandering Sphinx, Antarctica

2020
Archival Pigment Print
22 x 22 inches (55.9 x 55.9 cm)
1 of 10

$2600 unframed

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Osceola Refetoff, Shifting Seas, Antarctica

2020
Archival Pigment Print
23 x 30 inches (58.4 x 76.2 cm)
1 of 10

$3200 unframed

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Osceola Refetoff, Drifting Mesa, Antarctica

2020
Archival Pigment Print
14 x 18 inches (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
1 of 20

$1500 unframed

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Osceola Refetoff, Active Sound, Antarctica

2020
Archival Pigment Print
18 x 13 inches (45.7 x 33.0 cm)
1 of 20

$1500 unframed

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Osceola Refetoff, Maximum Twilight, Antarctica

2020
Archival Pigment Print
42 x 55 inches (106.7 x 139.7 cm)
1 of 5

$6400 unframed

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Osceola Refetoff, Tiny Island, Antarctica

2020
Archival Pigment Print
22 x 22 inches (55.9 x 55.9 cm)
1 of 10

$2600 unframed

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Osceola Refetoff, Ocean Grotto, Antarctica

2020
Archival Pigment Print
14 x 18 inches
1 of 20

$1500 unframed

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