Untitled

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
Price range: $

Joan Truckenbrod

1994

Cibachrome
22.5"x30"

Female Pioneer

Description

In Child Support and (Untitled) Capacity Isolation, two works made in 1994, Joan Truckenbrod extends her scanner-based practice by treating the flatbed as a site of physical experimentation. For Child Support, she placed drops of colored dye into water in a transparent tray set on a backlit scanner, capturing successive moments as pigments dispersed into luminous, cloudlike fields. These fluid color environments were then digitally reworked, with figures “sculpted” from the chromatic currents and intertwined within their fibrous, undulating space. In (Untitled) Capacity Isolation, scanned Alstroemeria petals combine with digitized electronic diagrams and mathematical notations, forming a layered dialogue between organic growth and systems of communication. Across both works, Truckenbrod uses scanning not simply to record objects but to generate mutable fields from which figures emerge, as if modeled directly out of light and color.