Sharon Switzer
Shadow Play
July 4–August 9, 2025

Sharon Switzer examines new media from within a historical context, revisiting old photographs and artifacts and forcing them through a deceptively naive “technological funnel”. Creating toy-like motion-picture devices (modeled on quaint, 19th century optical gizmos), Switzer projects ghostly images and animates the quirky gestures of paper dolls. Her nostalgic approach to these “sculptural moving image devices” creates a cunning display: almost everything in Shadow Play revolves and spins, clicks and whirs, so that the gallery comes alive with quiet, whispery movement.