Tristan Duke
Tristan Duke, Inventio Fortunata, 2022, Digital photograph made using a lens made from glacier ice. Archival pigment inkjet print on cotton rag paper, image courtesy of the artist
Tristan Duke, Burn Scar 1, Calf Canyon Hermits Peak, 2022, Digital photograph made using a lens made from ice. Archival piment inkjet print on cotton rag paper.
Tristan Duke, Fire Break, Calf Canyon Hermits Peak, 2022, Digital photograph made using a lens made from ice. Archival piment inkjet print on cotton rag paper, image courtesy of the artist
Tristan Duke, Icebergs Adrift, 2022, Digital photograph made using a lens made from glacier ice. Archival pigment inkjet print on cotton rag paper, image courtesy of the artist
Tristan Duke, Glacial Camera fitted with Ice lens, 2022
Tristan Duke, Antigua at Fjortende Julibukta, 2022, Gelatin Silver Photograph, made using Glacial Camera with a lens made from glacier ice.
Glacial Optics
SITE SANTA FE presents Glacial Optics, a solo exhibition by Tristan Duke. In 2022 the artist sailed to the Arctic to capture portraits of the glaciers, using a camera lens made from their very own ice. Subsequently, Duke has continued to explore the “gaze of the glacier” in an ongoing series of expeditionary, performative, photographic, and research-based work. This exhibition shares works from Duke's Glacial Optics series, positing the glacier as a literal and metaphorical lens through which to understand our current precarious times.
Tristan Duke
Tristan Duke is a Los Angeles-based artist with a special interest in light, optics, illusion, and visual perception. Using innovative approaches to m...LEARN MORE
Brandee Caoba
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