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"What marks James Welling most is his virtuosity: He experiments so widely with the photographic medium that no two series of his work look like they were made by the same artist. \"Monograph,\" currently on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, is a survey that encompasses 40 years of his career and displays Welling's mastery to dazzling effect. While the exhibition was seen earlier this year at the Cincinnati Art Museum, the show at the Hammer Museum introduces material from Welling's personal archives, including the physical filters and other ephemera used to create many of his images.\n\nPinterestFacebook***A15,*James Welling, 1977. Image courtesy of the artist and the Art Institute of Chicago\n\n Devising different ways to make images, he says, became \"like a game\" when he began printing photographs, in the late 1970s. In his first series of work, he used photographs torn from his great-grandmother's diary from the 1840s and juxtaposed them with negatives of landscapes of the Connecticut home where he grew up. Welling has never stopped experimenting, either with analog or digital processes.\n\nPinterestFacebook***019,*James Welling, 2006. Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London\n\n In \"Monograph,\" Welling presents a number of series, including \"Flowers\" (2004\u201311), a set of brightly colored images that look decorative but are the result of a complicated process that involves transferring a black-and-white photogram through brightly hued filters. In his \"Glass House\" series (2006\u201309), he overlays the rational geometric forms of Philip Johnson's iconic modernist structure with psychedelic colors, thus transforming the cool modernist masterpiece into an alien landscape. That alone justifies a visit to the exhibition.\n\nPinterestFacebook***8067,*James Welling, 2006. Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London\n\nThrough January 12, 2014, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California. hammer.ucla.edu*\n\n**"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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