RESIDUAL LIGHT
Wendy Small, Amanda Marchand, Anne Arden McDonald, Shoshannah White, Andrea Cote, Galina Kurlat, Kaitlyn Danielson, Debora Francis
May 9 - June 14, Reception May 9, 5-7 pm
In the John Little Barn

Anne Arden McDonald, Horizon Melts, 2025, cameraless silver gelatin print, 24x20 inches

Residual Light brings together a group of female artists working with alternative process and camera-less photography, embracing analog methods as collaborators rather than mere tools. Chance, materiality, and process shape the outcomes, celebrating experimentation and the unexpected. The work spans a wide range of contemporary image-making techniques, pushing photography beyond representation into the sublime, the abstract, and the unknown. A shared focus on the natural world, the celestial, and the body anchors the exhibition, subjects at once intimate and expansive that resonate with this particular moment, marked by political uncertainty, ecological fragility, and a collective reckoning with entrenched systems of power.

This exhibition was co-curated by artist and educator Andrea Cote, and photographic artist Galina Kurlat.

Andrea Cote is an interdisciplinary artist working in photography, printmaking, and installation. Based In Hampton Bays, NY, she has exhibited and performed her work at The Watermill Center, Delaware Art Museum, Abrons Arts Center, The Print Center, PanAmerican Art Projects, The Neuberger Museum, and Photo Buenos Aires. She received a NYSCA Artist Support Grant with the Patchogue Arts Council in 2023 and a Long Island Artist Fellowship for 2026. Recent residencies include The Church Sag Harbor, Uncommon Residency at Sound View in Greenport and Miami Paper and Print Museum.She recently completed two projects for Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY  - one as the featured artist of the 2024 Road Show at Bridge Gardens, followed by a Visiting Artist Initiative culminating in an installation at the museum. www.andreacote.com

Galina Kurlat is a photographic artist living in Brooklyn, NY, she earned her BFA in Media Arts from Pratt Institute. Kurlat creates a visual relationship between herself and her subject by embracing the imperfections and possibilities of antiquated photographic processes. Her works undulate between the recognizable and the ephemeral. By accepting the change and chaos inherent in photographic materials Kurlat challenges photography as a historically representational medium. Kurlat's work has been shown in South Korea, China, India, Scotland, France, Mexico and the US. Recent exhibitions include “Witness Marks: Towards the Unseen”, Studio 5, Brooklyn, NY, “Where Times Echos Repeat” Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, “Science Girl Party”, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA, "Vestige", treat gallery, VOLTA in NYC, "Traces", Louisville, KY, "Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now", The Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, IN, ” Process", Studio Bizio in Edinburgh, "Touch me Touch you", Jinju International Photo Festival, South Korea, "Self-Processing- Instant Photography", Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA. Her work is collected throughout the US and abroad. During 2005-2011 Kurlat curated a number of multi-media and site specific exhibitions in alternate spaces throughout NYC. www.galinakurlat.com