Lyndsy Welgos considers photography's function and or its dysfunction within art history paying special attention to its many taboos (like being a photographer in general). The continued search for identity and the freedom to use photographic materials interchangeably are core interests of her work. Welgos' gradients, portraits, and abstractions consider darkroom practices and Adobe Photoshop tools as one-in-the-same. Spilling Circles and Valerie are built around a framework of blurring, obscuring and avoiding implied elements of time. In Valerie, bright gradient layers separate the viewer from the subject with material abstraction, which takes the subject out of his/her time-based realism and into a meta-physical realm. - Press Release, Take-Out Andrew Edlin Gallery New York, New York