Molly McCall: A Peek Behind the Curtain 3/23

Wish You Were Here | A Peak Behind the Curtain

This series is a return to my love of landscape, combining my photographs, both darkroom and digital, with 19th-century glass photo plates. Some variations include the original glass plate, some I have removed the image from the plate digitally and kept all the remnants of chemistry and evidence of time. 

These composite images are “collage” type compositions reflecting my interest in memory and the relationship between the past and the present, exploring ways to reconcile the two on a sensory level. The images are purposely handled in a “scrapbook" analog fashion, emphasizing the physical nature of memory and all its imperfections. These explorations confront memory with associations or dissociations, reflecting the way memory breaks apart into fragments, sometimes joining them together in random ways, forming a new memory.

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Molly McCall Bio

Born in Monterey, California, Molly McCall was raised along the rugged California coastline and lush, bucolic landscape of the Monterey Peninsula. Surrounded by infamous photographers, writers, filmmakers, and painters, their work provided an indelible appreciation and awareness for nature and inspired her to pursue a creative career in art and design.

Molly’s earliest influence in art making came from her great-grandfather, an illustrator for the New York Times, and grandfather, a professional watercolorist in Southern California. She began painting and photography at an early age, later attending the Laguna Beach School of Art and the San Francisco Studio School to study both mediums.

Molly’s photographic work over the past decade explores themes of memory, a sense of place, and the natural world using both painting and photography. Her eclectic style, use of mixed media, and found imagery have become a recognizable “mark” as her unique process and point of view have received notable recognition with numerous awards for her creativity with the photographic medium. Blending the photographic medium, art history, and imagination, Molly blurs the lines between photography and painting while honoring her long history with materials, textiles, and design.

Molly McCall’s work has been featured in a wide range of art, design, and lifestyle publications throughout the world, including Architectural Digest magazine, The Extravagant, FotoNostrum, Analog Forever, Gentry, and Diffusion, and over the past decade, has been displayed both nationally and internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions including the Barcelona Foto Biennale, Barcelona, Spain, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, The Reclaim Photography Festival, Wolverhampton, England, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, Triton Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, The Los Angeles Center of Photography, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, SoHo Photo Gallery, Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University, Waco, TX, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX, Houston Center for Photography, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, and the Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, TX.

Molly McCall is a native of Carmel Valley, CA, and currently lives there with her husband and their two German Shorthaired Pointers, Emma and Willy.