Misleading Perspectives — Julie Boserup

Misleading Perspectives

Solo show at SOUS LES ETOILES GALLERY
New York
SEPTEMBER 15 – NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Inspired by the Wurts Bros.’s novel technique of aligning ground level shots of skyscrapers with images taken from the upper levels of a nearby building, Boserup adds found images, drawing, geological images and her own photographs shot in the streets of New York to an enlarged digital print from the archive. Whereas Lionel Wurts chose his technique of combined images to compensate for the misleading perspective of the bystander’s view, Boserup crafts new visions of the historical document in order to add layers of meaning, mingling both the familiar and fantastical. The NYC-specific series also features early 20th century documentation of the unfinished Queensboro Bridge, culled from the archives of the New-York Historical Society.

FACADE I

Pencil and collage on digital print. 170 x 134 cm. 2016

Original photo: Fashion Institute of Technology, Nagler Hall Dormitory, West 27th Street between 7th and 8th Avenue.
Date: 06.18.1964.
From the Wurts. Bros. Collection at the Museum of the City of New York.

FOLD

Pencil and collage on digital print, 73 x 102 cm, 2016.
Original photo: 750 3rd Avenue from 46th to 47th Street, west side (building view to show windows).
Date: 05.14.1958
From the Wurts. Bros. collection at the Museum of the City of New York

SLIDE

Pencil and collage on digital print, 80 x 101 cm. 2016
Original photo: 1 Whitehall Street. General exterior view looking N.E., 2 Broadway in background.
Date: 10.01.1963
From the Wurts. Bros. Collection at the Museum of the City of New York

TURN

Pencil and collage on digital print, 80 x 101 cm, 2016
Original photo: 161 William Street and Ann Street, N.W. corner. Buisnes building.
Date: 07.20.1951
From the Wurts. Bros. Collection at the Museum of the City of New York.

BRIDGE III

Pencil and collage on digital print, 70 x 98 cm, 2016.
Original photo: New York City: Blackwells Island Bridge (i.e. Queensboro Bridge). Under construction 1907.
From the collection of New York Historical Society.

BRIDGE I

Pencil and collage on digital print, 69 x 86 cm, 2016.
Original photo: Queensboro Bridge under construction.
Date: 1908
Photo by Byron Company, the Museum of the City of New York.

BRIDGE II

Pencil and collage on digital print, 70 x 89 cm. 2016
Original photo: Manhattan: Macombs Dam Bridge under construction over the Harlem River.
Date: ca. 1894
From the collection of New York Historical Society

MISLEADING PERSPECTIVE

Photo mural, digtal print and painting on wall.
Original photo: 260 11th Avenue. Installation of the elevator in plant.
Date: 08.01.1946
From the Wurts. Bros. Collection at the Museum of the city of New York