This is a review of our current exhibition. Read the full review at SF Examiner.com.
The exhibit is titled Synthetic Environments. If nature is the thesis and culture its antithesis, the work here approaches post-millennial landscape photography as synthesis.
Bulldozers, garbage, graffiti, murals, shopping carts, and other urban detritus share photographic space with greenery and sky. The latter barely peek through. These traditional signifiers of landscape genre disappear under the manufactured gloss of environment.
Most of the artists in this exhibit tackle aspects of urban and suburban environments. Alan George’s placid shoppers casually enter the jaws of the consuming beast. Jonah, meet Jaws. It is really nothing more than the gaping front entrance of an outlet called “Souvenir City” inexplicably configured to resemble the open mouth of a man-eating shark. The pastel off-the-rack outfits of the bait-like customers matches the hues of the bizarre building making them look even more like sugary snacks for the plaster monster. The stars and stripes wave in the breeze atop the fishy building…as does the jolly roger. Heave Ho!
via Synthetic Environments: Bay Area Photographers Collective at the Mina Dresden Gallery.
Another review of our Mina Dresden Gallery Exhibition
/0 Comments/in Book and Exhibition Reviews /by Ari SalomonThis is another review of our current exhibition. Read the full review.
Events: April 10, 2010
This listing includes reviews of: Catharine Clark, Mina Dresden, Michael Rosenthal, Root Division, Eleanor Harwood, Guerrero, Parisoma, Warehouse Gallery (Oakland).
Adrienne Defendi @RayKo Photo Center
/0 Comments/in Events, Member News /by adminAdrienne Defendi participates in RayKo’s 3rd Annual Juried Pinhole Camera Show, 428 Third Street, San Francisco. Opening Reception: Sunday, April 25, 4-6pm.
Adrienne Defendi @Castell Photo Gallery
/0 Comments/in Events, Member News /by adminAdrienne Defendi exhibits three images in The Lensless Image: A Juried Exhibition of Lensless Photography, at Castell Photography, Asheville, NC. Opening reception: April 29th, 5-8pm.
Prevalence of Photography
/1 Comment/in Thinking about Photography /by adminMaking a print is physical and requires making difficult choices
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Synthetic Environments: Bay Area Photographers Collective at the Mina Dresden Gallery
/0 Comments/in Book and Exhibition Reviews /by Ari SalomonThis is a review of our current exhibition. Read the full review at SF Examiner.com.
via Synthetic Environments: Bay Area Photographers Collective at the Mina Dresden Gallery.
Erin Malone @Minneapolis Photo Center
/0 Comments/in Events, Member News /by adminErin Malone will participate in the juried exhibition, Landscape Unfeigned or Illusory at the Minneapolis Photo Center, 2400 North Second Street, Minneapolis, MN. Opening Reception: 23 April 2010 7:00-10:00pm.
BAPC Members Peer Review
/0 Comments/in Events, Member-only Events /by adminBAPC Members Peer Review at Rayko. Members Only.
BAPC Members Peer Review
/0 Comments/in Events, Member-only Events /by adminBAPC Members Peer Review at Rayko. Members Only.
Adrienne Defendi and Angelika Schilli @Vermont Photography Workplace
/0 Comments/in Events, Member News /by adminAdrienne Defendi and Angelika Schilli will be participating in the Nostalgia show at the Vermont Photo Place Gallery, 3 Park Street in Middlebury, Vermont. Artists Reception is April 9th, 5-7 pm
Eric Larson @SOMA Open Studios
/0 Comments/in Events, Member News /by adminEric Larson is participating in the SOMA Open Studios at the ARC Studios and Gallery, 1246 Folsom at 9th St. The artist’s reception is 7-10pm April 16th.
BAPC Members Guest Review
/0 Comments/in Events, Member-only Events /by adminPhotographer, Susannah Hayes is scheduled as a guest reviewer.
Irene Imfield’s Oakland studio. Members only
Black & White Spider Awards
/0 Comments/in Photography Competitions /by Ari SalomonBlack and White Spider Awards is open to professional and amateur photographers shooting in all forms of black and white photography using traditional or digital methods. We encourage classic styles, new creative ideas and photographers who are driven by their artistic eye and a desire to excel in this classic art form.
via Black & White Spider Awards | How To Enter.