Jessica Eaton: New Works May 1 – 31, 2014 Opening reception Thursday, 1 May, 6:30-8:30pm Jessica Bradley Gallery is pleased to present celebrated Canadian photographer Jessica Eaton’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. A photography graduate from Vancouver’s Emily Carr University who now resides in Montreal, Eaton has quickly risen to international prominence. Her work was recently lauded in The Guardian as “a dramatically beautiful response to the ongoing debate about photography's meaning in our age of relentless digital distraction.” Jessica Eaton uses analogue techniques often dating from the early years of photography to explore the elemental properties of the medium. She is renowned for her richly hued geometric compositions, which she describes as “photographs I wasn’t able to see before they existed.” Though her works are often mistaken for digital manipulations, her colour palette is produced entirely within the camera using filters and multiple exposures. While these optical effects appear to be entirely abstract, they result from an elaborate process of transforming her subjects into pure evocations of light. Interested in how a camera and the light sensitive matter of film can be used to “see” beyond what is possible within human vision, Eaton has taken her experimentation with colour and light to new levels of intensity and complexity in her most recent works. Jessica Eaton has had solo exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery, The Hospital Club, London (2014); Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography, France (2013); California Museum of Photography, Riverside (2013); M+B Gallery, Los Angeles (2012), Higher Pictures, New York (2011), and Red Bull 381 Projects, Toronto (2011). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina (2014); Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2013); Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida (2013) and Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (2012), as well as the Daegu Photography Biennale, South Korea (2012) and the Quebec Triennial, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2011). Eaton was the recipient of the 2012 Grand Prix du Jury for the Hyères Fashion and Photography Festival and the 2011 Foam Talent Award (Amsterdam). Jessica Bradley Gallery 74 Miller Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6N 2Z9 .