Hazel May Eckert is an artist and designer based in St. John’s NL. She makes work about encountering images. Earlier works took the form of figurative collage made from archival images assembled delicately, intuitively, with surgical precision.
In new work, Eckert’s images are made on her iPhone. “Failed,” frozen, or partially-rendered iPhone images create blurry, digital mirages of people, places and moments. Images that have not fully resolved or loaded (and relate to frustration/impatience with technology) gel into beautiful, contemplative washes of colour, sometimes with traces of intentioned content. Printed works in Soft Focus — a collection of images as loosely formed thoughts — prompt pause to consider our phones as a fickle collaborator in autobiography, photography and portraiture.
Mar 8—Mar 30, 2024
Dec 9—Dec 31, 2022
Dec 11—Dec 31, 2021
Oct 22—Nov 7, 2021
Nov 8—Nov 30, 2019
Jul 18—Aug 31, 2019
With a Soft Gaze: Hazel May Eckert’s Over Time, Kate Lahey for Peripheral Review, 2019.
Exhibition Review: Hazel Eckert’s Over Time, Emily Pittman for The Gathered Gallery, 2018.