Hazel May Eckert › Christina Parker Gallery

Soft Focus IMG_2143

Archival inkjet print
40" x 30"
2019
Soft Focus IMG_9203

Archival inkjet print
30" x 40"
2019
Soft Focus IMG_1665

Archival inkjet print
40" x 30"
2019
Soft Focus IMG_0571

Archival inkjet print
40" x 30"
2019
Soft Focus IMG_0176

Archival inkjet print
30" x 40"
2019
Selfie (IMG_1624)

Archival inkjet print
40" x 30"
2019
Selfie (IMG_1473)

Archival inkjet print
40" x 30"
2019
Soft Focus IMG_0393

Archival inkjet print
30" x 30"
2019
Soft Focus IMG_1129

Archival inkjet print
30" x 30"
2019
Soft Focus IMG_1205

Archival inkjet print
30" x 30"
2019
Soft Focus IMG_2075

Archival inkjet print
40" x 30"
2019

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.
Hazel May Eckert CV
Summer 2019

Jul 18—Aug 31, 2019

Hazel May Eckert – Soft Focus

Nov 8—Nov 30, 2019
2019 Kate Lahey, With a Soft Gaze: Hazel May Eckert’s Over Time, Peripheral Review. peripheralreview.com

2018 Emily Pittman, “Exhibition Review: Hazel Eckert’s Over Time”, The Gathered Gallery. thegatheredgallery.com