New Acquisitions--Rand Renfrow

I just picked up two silscreen prints I bought at the Monster Show at Domy. They are "fig. 1" and "fig. 3" by Rand Renfrow. I wanted to take photos of them, but they are really hard to shoot--in fact, they are perfect examples of how inadequate photography is in depicting a piece of art. (Especially when I am holding the camera.)


Rand Renfrow, fig. 3, silkscreen print, 2009 (?)

So the colors are about right here in intensity, but the paper looks a dark.

Here's the same piece taken with a flash.


Rand Renfrow, fig. 3, silkscreen print, 2009 (?)

The colors are really intense, and you can see detail you couldn't see before--but these colors are actually a lot more intense than on the original. The flash gives the colors a deceptively "kandy-kolor" look.


Rand Renfrow, fig. 1, silkscreen print, 2009 (?)

Again, this unflashed photo shows colors that are more or less correct, but makes the paper look dark.


Rand Renfrow, fig. 1, silkscreen print, 2009 (?)

And with a flash, the picture is more readable, but the colors are too bright, too flourescent, and basically false.

So if you could somehow mentally combine the two versions of each print, you'd have a pretty decent idea of what they look like. They certainly look great when you see them in person.