Uta Barth is internationally recognized for images bordering on painterly abstraction. The artist renders blurred backgrounds, cropped frames, and the natural qualities of light to capture incidental and fleeting moments which exist almost exclusively within our periphery. With deliberate disregard for both the conventional photographic subject and the point and shoot role of the camera, Barth's work deconstructs the conventions of visual representation, calling attention to the limits of the human eye. Public reception immediately following the lecture: Cincinnati Art Museum, Great Hall. Photo: Uta Barth, from: ...and to draw a bright white line with light. 2011.7 (detail), 2011. Courtesy of the artist, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and 1301PE, Los Angeles.