Meghann Riepenhoff: Ice

Meghann Riepenhoff’s “Ice” is an exhibition of the artist’s new and recent camera-less cyanotypes, which she created in collaboration with her chosen muse—a series of landscapes. Open at Haines Gallery through January 29, the works on view capture winter topography from Colorado, Washington, and Wisconsin, made by coating paper in a homemade emulsion and placing them directly into the earth. The photographic chemicals then transfer the surfaces of the natural world onto her papers, capturing them in unexpected color and details—seen in works like Ice #64 (18-29℉, Big Creek, WA 03.09.20), which formed over a three-day period of freezing and thawing in the ground.