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September
3rd - October 12th
Imagined
Realities
Featuring work by Dominic
Rouse, Maggie
Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann
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Surrealist
photography bases its foundation to startle, delight, and disturb,
on the viewer's willingness to accept the photograph as a "proof"
of a truly observed reality. By combining this evidence of a "non-fiction"
with the artist's imagination, the surrealist photographer offers
forth visions of their own mind's eye in a medium that is all too
easy to accept as real. And where computer trickery and darkroom
magic often plays a major role in the execution of the artist's
vision, it is in the conception of the work that we are shown the
terrain that the artist wishes to reveal to us, and the tools employed
are just another method to take us there.
Dominic
Rouse
www.dominicrouse.co.uk
Dominic Rouse was born in England
in 1959 and has lived in the rural eastern counties of Suffolk and
Norfolk for most of his life. Inspired by the writings of Franz
Kafka and Philip Larkin and the art of M.C. Escher, Salvador Dali,
and Rene Magritte, Rouse's talents, sensibilities, and perhaps even
locality results in toned black and white compositions that feature
headless figures, ecclesiastical interiors, and rolling misty landscapes.
Rouse's work is exhibited regularly in the United States, the UK,
Zurich, and Buenos Aires, and he has been the recipient of numerous
awards for his commerical photography, winning the International
Digital Exhibition Award (IDEA) in 1999 & 2000. In March 2002 he
was awarded the Ultimate Eye Foundation grant in California and
in October 2003 he'll begin a residency at Light Work in Syracuse,
New York.
Maggie
Taylor
www.maggietaylor.com
Maggie
Taylor's digital images collages illustrates a brightly colored
fantasy world of whimsical and interesting creatures. Ejecting the
camera altogether, Taylor acquires her images exclusively through
a flatbed scanner, placing 3-D objects directly on the glass, manipulating
in Photoshop, and outputting her work as Iris prints. Since her
last show at the Benham Gallery in 1999, Taylor's work has shown
all over the world and has earned accolades for its technical prowess,
but it is the bold image content that draws collectors and art enthusiasts
to her brightly colored palette. Since 1987, Taylor has had over
60 solo shows throughout the United States, and she received the
State of Florida Individual Artist's Fellowship in 1996 and 2001.
Jerry
Uelsmann
http://www.uelsmann.net/
Jerry
Uelsmann's work shows us the images within the images as he extrapolates
the possible and fantastical through things common and everyday.
From a country road with a pair of lips grafted neatly amidst the
gravel to rich mosaics of skyscrapers set against skies dried and
cracked like old peeling paint, Uelsmann's imagery utilizes only
the lens of a standard camera, with final output via the traditional
method of the darkroom to achieve these wondrous composite images
that are uniquely his own. With a career spanning thirty years and
over 100 solo shows, Uelsmann's photographs are in the permanent
collections of numerous museums world-wide, including the Metropolitian
Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Chicago Art
Institute, The Internation Museum of Photography at the George Eastman
House, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Benham
Gallery Artist Reception: Saturday September 14th 4-6pm
Saturday
September 14th 7pm
Panel discussion: The Art World and Digital Photography with internationally
acclaimed photographers Dominic Rouse, Maggie Taylor & Jerry Uelsmann
Saturday,
Tickets: $15, Photographic Center Northwest students and members
$10 Call PCNW for tickets and location
Our next show:
October 22nd - November 24th
David Johnson and Ralph Gibson
Opening Reception: Thursday October 24th 2002 6-8pm
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