Fotograf Magazine

Mary Ellen Bartley is an important American artist who lives and works in New York. Her work often stands on the threshold of semi-transparent tonality, and that is where they are most touched by abstraction. This particularly applies to her series Modeling Light and Push 2 Stops.

Within these series, Bartley uses the materials of photography as inspiration. She plays with photographic techniques and technical processes in a distinctive and imaginative way, evoking the feeling in viewers that they are witnessing a ritual in which the ordinary meets the peculiar. The depicted objects and fragile arrangements feel intangible, as if we are witnessing an act of levitation.