X-Flora Opening Reception Aurelia Gallery
Fri, Mar 04
|Aurelia Gallery
Meet artist Bryan Whitney and experience the exhibition of his beautiful botanical x-ray images at Aurelia Gallery on Canyon Road this Friday evening. Image: Tulip • 36 x 36" by Bryan Whitney


Time & Location
Mar 04, 2022, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Aurelia Gallery, 414 Canyon Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Botanical X-rays by Bryan Whitney The images in this exhibition are radiographs. Whitney is one of the foremost practitioners of this technique for artistic purposes and he has created x-ray images for over 20 years and exhibited them internationally. He has written about x-rays in art and his work has been featured in books and magazines including Martha Stewart, Garden Design, Fortune, Wired, Italian Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar.
There are no cameras or lenses involved in the process. The plants are placed directly in front of the film and x-rays are beamed through the object and onto the film, revealing the beautiful inner structure of the flora. Whitney uses high resolution, large format x-ray film which he develops in the darkroom. The resulting image is the same size as the subject, similar to a photogram, where an object is placed on a sheet of photo paper. After the negative film is…