New Exhibition

Emerge

Landscape
Throughout the 19^th and 20^th centuries the American landscape had been used to promote everything from the idyllic lifestyle and a code of morality, to the politics of western expansion. This approach of symbolism resulted in turning the image of the landscape into a fertile myth of escapism, opportunity, and self-reflection and established a systematic formula for constructing an image recognizable to both the artist and the viewer. This constructed image often resulted in an artificial representation of the land that served as an approachable metaphor for the viewer.

Photography continued to perpetuate these ideas by capturing the landscape as the grand monument. The myth of the western landscape captivated its audience by allowing them to feel existential.

In the 1970’s a new approach to landscape photography was explored by the artists identified as the New Topographics. These photographers reassessed landscape photography by focusing on capturing the relationship between man and the land.

Landscape is an examination of this dichotomy and the construction of a dialogue between the artist and the landscape they participate in. The photographic process combined with the landscape serves as a visual dialogue where each image is allowed to serve as both metaphor and self-portrait.

Landscape well be on view November 16 - December 19 at Art Access located at 230 South 500 West #125 Salt Lake City Utah.

Post #5 from Perception

Tsimmis
 

Convergence
 

Reprieve
 

Overture

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability." -Susan Sontag

Post #4 from Perception

Oubliette
























Ossuary


















Osseous


















Orbiter... in passing

"I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs."
-Duane Michals

Post #3 from Perception

Lethe


















Empheral


















Instare... be present

"I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks."
-Duane Michals

Post #2 from Perception...

Compulsive
























Chimerical


















Antiquated

"Ultimately - or at the limit - in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,' Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."
-Barthes

Semantics

While the Perception exhibit is on view at Gallery UAF I thought I would try something new and use this space as a sort of online gallery to share the work with a broader audience. Each day for the remainder of the show check back here for a new work from the exhibit.



















Semantics

"In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever, it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value."
-Barthes

*Each piece in the exhibit is a 5x7 digital archive print and is printed as an edition of ten. Please contact for purchasing information.

Perception

We are said to live forever in memory, yet our own memories will inevitably fail us and time will rob us of ourselves, our life becoming a series of fleeting memories whose validity will evade us. Whether consciously or subconsciously accepting of this, human nature often compels us to reconstruct our understanding of our personal histories through the photographs ability to suspend time. We photograph what we cherish about life, what we deem worthy of remembering and what provides a participatory sense of who we are.

Perception examines photography’s ability to reconstruct emotions associated with memory in order to give them the opportunity to become shared experiences. Whether these remembered experiences and emotional responses are authentic or a fabrication they allow us to re-experience and construct intimate notions of self and each other.

Perception will be on view along with works by Verl Adams and Blake Palmer March 16th to April 13th at Gallery UAF located at 230 South 500 West Suite 120 in Salt Lake City.