Lorraine Bubar and Jody Zellen
Call and Response

March 17 - May 3, 2025

Lorraine Bubar and Jody Zellen’s Call and Response is a collaborative project that began in the early days of Covid 19 and is shown in an exhibition for the first time. Bubar and Zellen began their exchange in 2020 and have continued to send each other collages almost bi-weekly since then: the result is more than 500 digital artworks. When creating images in response to the one they received, both Bubar and Zellen pick an aspect of the picture to respond to — be it a color, shape or figure. Both draw from online repositories for their imagery and fashion these appropriated materials into personal collages. Zellen often uses news photos as the basis of her work, while Bubar culls from representations of nature.

For their Proxy exhibition Lorraine and Jody combed through all the images from their collaboration looking for pairs that resonated. They output them as lenticular prints — images that oscillate between two collages — which are presented along with mirrors to create a labyrinthine effect. A colorful poster with a grid of 100 images that showcases the range of the project will also be on view.

The full collaboration here: callresponselj.

For more information visit Proxy Gallery online here.