Lauren Henkin | Second Nature

Second Nature is the Center for Maine Contemporary Art's new Toshiko Mori-designed facility's inaugural photography exhibition, running August 28 - October 23, 2016.

Click here to view the Second Nature press release, and scroll down to view selected works from the exhibition. Conceptual components pictured include:

eScapes, large format photographs of crowd-sourced nature images viewed on computer monitors, complete with resting cursor arrow and distorted by the faintly gridded moiré pattern that comes about when one attempts to photograph a screen.

Botanicals, picturesque floral compositions actually composed of cheap artificial flowers.

Indoor/Outdoor Living, the Maine wilderness as viewed from inside the artist's home through a window frame.

Those I Knew, postcard-sized silver gelatin contact prints that reference nature photography's historical, non-digital roots in the context of what the genre has enabled itself to become.

A Virtual View of the Moon Showing Clementine Data, Photo by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (from eScapes series), 2015. 19 x 30.25 inches. Pigment print.

Poppies (from Botanicals series), 2014. 40 x 32 inches. Pigment print.

Half Dome as Viewed from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park. Original Photo by DAVID ILIFF; Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0 (from eScapes series), 2015. 30.4 x 48 inches. Pigment print.

Detail: Half Dome as Viewed from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park. Original Photo by DAVID ILIFF; Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0 (from eScapes series), 2015. 30.4 x 48 inches. Pigment print.

Indoor/Outdoor Living 3, 2014. 40 x 32 inches. Pigment print.

Orchid (from Botanicals series), 2014. 40 x 32 inches. Pigment print.

Roses (from Botanicals series), 2014. 40 x 32 inches. Pigment print.

Poppies 2 (from Botanicals series), 2014. 40 x 32 inches. Pigment print.

Those I Knew 1, 2015. 4.5 x 5.5 inches. Silver gelatin contact print.

Those I Knew 20, 2015. 4.5 x 5.5 inches. Silver gelatin contact print.