Gerri York

A Wolf is not a Dog proposes sculpture and photography as a hybrid language, where folds, light,  and chance collapse human and animal distinctions into embodied forms. Gerri York’s sculptures begin as small, folded photo paper sculptures in the darkroom which are placed under the enlarger light. Once exposed, they are unfolded, transformed into photographic prints, scanned, and digitally enlarged. These much larger prints are re-folded and combined with multimedia elements into three-dimensional sculptures. 

Manipulating photo paper and darkroom chemicals produces abstract images that hover  between interior and exterior, revealing and concealing. The folds hold within them a tension  between what is seen and what is hidden.These works exploit this uncertainty, creating surfaces  that are suggestive of life forms, processes of becoming and the ineffable presence of the animal.