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Daniel Faria Gallery is pleased to present Handy Work, Steven Beckly’s third solo presentation with the gallery and a CONTACT Photography Festival Core Exhibition.
The photographs in Handy Work emerge from a collaborative process between Beckly and his father, a Chinese-Canadian war veteran. Based on conversations between the two about his father’s time as a weapons technician during the Vietnam War, Beckly worked with a local jewelry designer to fashion a series of unique rings referencing the shapes of bullets, casings, and shields, some inlaid with jade and gemstones. Their surfaces also reveal hints of the natural world: the veins of a leaf or the rippled texture of water. These are based on Beckly’s existing photographs, which have been translated into brass using 3D printing technology. Captured in chiaroscuro lighting against army-green and camouflage-patterned backdrops, the rings appear on Beckly’ and his father’s hands, as they twist and tangle in...More
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Daniel Faria Gallery is pleased to present Handy Work, Steven Beckly’s third solo presentation with the gallery and a CONTACT Photography Festival Core Exhibition.
The photographs in Handy Work emerge from a collaborative process between Beckly and his father, a Chinese-Canadian war veteran. Based on conversations between the two about his father’s time as a weapons technician during the Vietnam War, Beckly worked with a local jewelry designer to fashion a series of unique rings referencing the shapes of bullets, casings, and shields, some inlaid with jade and gemstones. Their surfaces also reveal hints of the natural world: the veins of a leaf or the rippled texture of water. These are based on Beckly’s existing photographs, which have been translated into brass using 3D printing technology. Captured in chiaroscuro lighting against army-green and camouflage-patterned backdrops, the rings appear on Beckly’ and his father’s hands, as they twist and tangle in...More
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