Uptown Site I

Uptown Site I

Press & Installations

Nancy Richardson’s large-scale scenes are montaged from archives of images shot at various times of day, light, weather-often over a period of weeks, sometimes years. On a computer screen, the images look like a day’s rushes from a movie set. As in movie making, unexpected narratives emerge in the editing process. Time is compressed, figures appear more than once, and the use of a range of camera lenses allows the composition to look sharp from the foreground cobblestones to a stream of people crossing the street a block away. Standing near the image, a viewer is invited to read the scene inch by inch. At that remove, details seem very realistic yet the scene soon reveals itself to be an illusion.