YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER
The Chisel & The Pencil
December 6, 2024 - January 26, 2025
Opening reception:
Friday, December 6, 2024, 6 - 8:30pm
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Black Dune, 2022
16 x 12 inches | 40.64 x 30.48 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper and custom matte
Unique
The Chisel & The Pencil continues Yael Eban and Matthew Gamber’s investigation of photography’s role in visual culture through a creative interpretation of marble - a material that is often faked, simulated, replicated, or reproduced. By exploring marble’s intersection with photography, a medium uniquely suited to emulating and commodifying surfaces, Eban and Gamber delve into broader questions of originality, reproduction, and artistic value.
A broad range of analog and digital photographic techniques, from cameraless darkroom processes to photogrammetry and 3D printing, are used to explore marble's aspirational value and its ubiquity from high to low art through tropes of kitsch, trompe-l'œil and the uncanny. In many cases, the forgery becomes the preferred version. These "real fakes" challenge our perception of what constitutes a genuine work of art and ask viewers to consider the role of the artist’s hand and the intricate relationship between the original and the faithful copy.
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Vein Cut, 2022
12 x 16 inches | 30.48 x 40.64 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper and custom matte
Unique
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Subduction (1), 2022
24 x 20 inches | 60.96 x 50.8 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper
Unique
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Subduction (2), 2022
24 x 20 inches | 60.96 x 50.8 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper
Unique
Installation view
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Foliation (1), 2022
20 x 16 inches | 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper
Unique
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Dusty Veil, 2022
16 x 12 inches | 40.64 x 30.48 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper and custom matte
Unique
Installation view
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Foliation (1), 2022
20 x 16 inches | 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper
Unique
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Foliation (3), 2022
20 x 16 inches | 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper
Unique
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Cava di Ravaccione, Carrara, Italy, 2018
24 x 16 inches | 60.96 x 40.64 cm.
Gelatin silver print
Edition of 3
Installation view
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Channel, 2022
16 x 12 inches | 40.64 x 30.48 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper and custom matte
Unique
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Delta, 2022
16 x 12 inches | 40.64 x 30.48 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper and custom matte
Unique
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Serpentine, 2022
16 x 12 inches | 40.64 x 30.48 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper and custom matte
Unique
Installation view
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Metamorphic (2), 2022
40 x 32 inches | 101.6 x 81.28 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper
Unique
Installation view
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Cava da Nicoletta, Carrara, Italy, 2018
11 x 14 inches | 27.94 x 35.56 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 10
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Subduction (3), 2022
20 x 24 inches | 50.8 x 60.96 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper
Unique
Installation view
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Tempest, 2022
12 x 16 inches | 30.48 x 40.64 cm.
Photogram of ink on gelatin silver paper and custom matte
Unique
YAEL EBAN & MATTHEW GAMBER, Fragment, 2024
Sizes variable
3D printed PLA plastic, solvent-based ink
Unique
YAEL EBAN (Israeli, b. 1985)
Yael Eban is a visual artist working primarily with the medium of photography. Her work investigates photography’s role in visual culture. Eban is a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Photography. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artsy, Collector Daily, and FADER. Eban has attended several residencies including MASS MoCA, Wassaic Project, and Vermont Studio Center. She recently served as co-director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, a non-profit network of artist-run spaces. She is based in the Hudson Valley.
MATTHEW GAMBER (American, b. 1977)
Matthew Gamber is an artist based in Austerlitz, NY. His photography work explores historical media technologies, underscoring their development and influence on visual culture. Since 2019, Gamber has collaborated with artist Yael Eban to examine the physical nature of photographs. Their projects explore themes such as authenticity, materiality, and the interplay between the physical nature of photographs and the medium’s ability to emulate and commodify surfaces.
Gamber is the recipient of an Individual Photographer's Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, an Artist’s Resource Trust Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, a Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a Blanche E. Colman Award. Gamber is Associate Professor of Photography and New Media in the Department of Visual Arts at College of the Holy Cross, having previously worked on archive and digitization projects with Harvard University and the Boston Public Library for Digital Commonwealth.