Chiaroscuro (2022)

July 1 to September 1, 2022

Chiaroscuro (2022) was presented from July 1 to September 1, 2022 as an online photography exhibition of 34 works by 30 artists. Its original framing gives darkness, shadow, and space equal weight with light and color, describing the photograph through brightness, contrast, highlights, and shadows while asking what concealment can make evident. The live catalog records 27 archival photo prints, two archival pigment prints, two wet plate collodion tintypes, and three entries with no medium listed. The process ledger accounts for every catalog entry while leaving three missing medium fields visibly unresolved rather than inferred. Featured Artist credits reach across the United States and include locations in Australia, Mexico, Canada, Germany, and Hungary. Those are artist credit locations, not statements of nationality or where any work was made. The page preserves the full roster, 34 catalog entries, dimensions, edition notes, and historical listed prices inside TCG Gallery's permanent online photography exhibition archive. Explore the complete exhibition below, then continue through related shadow and light photography, the archive, or TCG Gallery's current photography open calls.

Darkness, Shadow, and the Limits of Visibility

Chiaroscuro (2022) is a completed contemporary photography exhibition of 34 works by 30 artists. The original page frames darkness, shadow, and space as active parts of a photograph rather than empty areas around a subject. It names brightness, contrast, highlights, and shadows as a shared structure, then asks what becomes evident or remains alluded to through concealment. This archive keeps that proposition attached to the actual catalog. It does not infer subject matter, visual style, or meaning from artwork titles, and it does not extend the theme into an outside history of painting or optics.

Twenty-Nine Archival Prints

The catalog provides a measurable process record. Twenty-seven entries are identified as archival photo prints and two as archival pigment prints. Malcolm Easton's Vista and Memory are the two archival pigment prints. Heidi Egerman's In a Jam and Daily Bread are archival photo prints. Other archival photo print credits include works by Brandon Movall, Gavin Libotte, Laura Ally, Bonnie Blake-Drucker, Jody Boyer, Catherine Comtois, John Diephouse, Katrin Loy, Mark Dierker, Paula Navarro, and Zsofia Darago. Naming the exact processes and artists makes the page searchable without claiming that the repeated print format produces one repeated visual result.

Wet Plate Collodion Tintypes

Randall Tosh contributed the two wet plate collodion tintypes in the exhibition: Glossus moltkiana, Phallium glaucum, Conus triblei and Tonna alium. Both live credits list a 4 by 5 inch format and the same year. The archive records the medium exactly as supplied on the page, without adding a process history or interpreting the subjects named in the titles. Together with the archival photo and pigment prints, these two entries give viewers a direct path into searches for tintype photography, wet plate collodion work, archival printing, and contemporary photographic processes.

Catalog Structure, Dimensions, and Archival Fields

The 34 entries are attached to 30 Featured Artists, so the work total and artist total remain distinct. Malcolm Easton, Heidi Egerman, and Randall Tosh each have two works named in the process records above. The catalog also retains dimensions, years, edition information when supplied, and historical price or NFS fields. Those details make the page useful as a searchable exhibition record without implying current availability. Each work remains connected to its artist credit and listed medium, while blank media stay blank. This factual structure lets viewers move from process searches to the complete image grid without reconstructing information the catalog does not provide.

Three Credits Without a Listed Medium

Ed Rehbein's Dutchman's Breeches, Reilly Callis's Caged White, and Stephanie Guillen's Forsaken Times each appear with dimensions, year, historical price or NFS field, and artist credit location, but no medium. That absence remains visible instead of being converted into a guessed process. Featured Artist credit locations also remain what the page says they are: catalog identifiers across the United States and in Australia, Mexico, Canada, Germany, and Hungary. They are not presented as nationality, subject geography, or evidence of production location.

Chiaroscuro in the Permanent Photography Archive

Chiaroscuro remains available inside TCG Gallery's permanent online photography exhibition archive with its exact roster, process fields, dimensions, editions, and historical price fields. Those price and NFS entries do not establish current availability. The separate Sales and Artist Inquiries block remains below the catalog. Explore all 34 works on this page, continue to Shadow and Light (2024), browse the full exhibition archive, or review current photography open calls.

Featured Artists

Andrea Gluckman, Angelica Jaramillo, Bonnie Blake-Drucker, Brandon Movall, Carol Foerster, Catherine Comtois, Charles Levin, Dean Forbes, Dusty Cooper, Ed Rehbein, Eric Rennie, Gavin Libotte, Heidi Egerman, Jody Boyer, John Diephouse, Katrin Loy, Laura Ally, Laura Cochran, Leslie Hall, Malcolm Easton, Mark Dierker, Mary Eileen Carson, Nicholas Sullivan, Paula Navarro, Randall Tosh, Reilly Callis, Roni Ben-Nun, Scot Wittman, Stephanie Guillen, Zsofia Darago