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Greetings!
This month the gallery is all about photography. We have assembled a magical and compelling exhibition of contemporary photography. With the arrival of the digital age, boundaries have further blurred between photography and other art forms. Things are no longer exactly what they appear to be.
The Illusive Image is up through April 14th, so stop by if you're in LODO!
We will open Ted Waddell's show the weekend of May 18th. We have some wonderful events planned this weekend with Ted. For more information or to RSVP contact us at the gallery
Visions West Gallery |
 Peter Smuts
Charismatic Megafauna The images in the series "Charismatic Megafauna" are farcical 'wildlife landscapes' in which apparently real animals are seen through common household containers containing vibrantly colored liquids. On closer examination the "megafauna" are revealed to in fact be small plastic "microfauna" and the containers Mason jars or simple vases. Despite our awareness of this, these toys engage and disturb us with their insistent glares.
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| Chris Todd
Chris Todd's stark western landscapes document an austere, unforgiving desert environment that may be the ultimate victor in its interaction with man. The epic sun-bleached sky and sands of his photographs appear to hold the power to soon erase the marks man attempts to leave on the landscape. Todd's photographs depict the western environment in all of its harsh, brooding majesty.
 
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Charlotte Cory is an artist who seamlessly recycles Victorian imagery and taxidermy and her own photography and painting to create a fantastical alternative vision of the 19th Century when animals ruled the world. Her work is in the Royal Collection at Windsor. Cory's photography, like much that we consider genius is a marriage of two highly unexpected genres that fit so naturally together, you wonder why no one had thought of it before. "'Cartes-de-visite', photographic calling cards, were a Victorian craze. It was called "cartomania". Millions were made, but can there be anything more wretched than a person proudly got up in their best bib and tucker, preserved for a posterity that is no longer interested. And yet there is something sadder: stuffed animals in museums, shot long ago not on glass plates but with guns, their very bodies likewise preserved for posterity to gawk at. One day it came to Cory: why not RECYCLE the dispossessed pictures and long dead creatures. Grant them all a new lease of life. Better, more colorful, more deserving than before. For more images. |
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Robert and Shiiko Alexander
"We are presently working with our photographs of the American West. The starting points for our prints are traditional film-based photographs. The degree of digital visual manipulation, or interpretation, varies from print to print. Between the taking of the original photographs and the creation of the finished prints, there is a good deal of back-and-forth dialogue and experimentation. When we feel we have achieved our goal of creating an evocative print, we commit the image to 100% fine art paper."
See more photography by Robert and Shiiko!
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 Susan Stella
Stella uses symbolism from various cultures and ages and allegory in her work to evoke the mysterious. Rich abstracted darkness and soft focus in the pictorial style provoke one to look into the image with question, the intention being an experience into the world of the ethereal and the mystical, be it a tree or a face. Blending a combination of traditional photographic methods, such as platinum, palladium and silver, with digital printmaking to create photographs with an early photography aesthetic. Stella's work is in private collections in The United States and abroad. Click to see more of Stella's work! |
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Susan Friedman
Friedman has been a still photographer for many years and has had one-women shows both nationally and internationally, including Tokyo, Amsterdam, Berlin, and San Francisco.. Her still work is collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Oakland Museum, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.
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