Incident Angles

Looking at art from a different angle.

Incident Angles is an ongoing project documenting paintings in museums around the world. In hanging artwork and their accompanying lighting, museums take care to avoid offending glare, displaying their art in the most even and flattering light. Adjusting exposure and vantage point, familiar paintings are transformed, elucidating the subtle relief in old master paintings as well as the varied lighting strategies and ceiling treatments designed to be invisible to the viewer.

Included in PABLO GARCIA: FLAT at Novella Gallery
08 February—02 March 2014

Piero della Francesca, The Nativity, 1470–75, National Gallery, London. Museums carefully illuminate their paintings to be seen clearly and without distracting shadows or glare. — Piero della Francesca, *The Nativity*, 1470–75, National Gallery, London. Museums carefully illuminate their paintings to be seen clearly and without distracting shadows or glare.

London (Piero della Francesca), 2009. While the image depicted in The Nativity is obscured, Piero’s brush strokes and the wood panel substrate become visible. — London (Piero della Francesca), 2009. While the image depicted in *The Nativity* is obscured, Piero’s brush strokes and the wood panel substrate become visible.

Incident Angles, installed in Pablo Garcia: Flat, at Novella Gallery, NY (2014) — *Incident Angles,* installed in Pablo Garcia: Flat, at Novella Gallery, NY (2014)