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Ansel Adams: Masterworks
One of the components of Earthscapes features the work of Ansel Adams. There are few artists whose name and works represent the extraordinary level of popular recognition and artistic achievement that we associate with Ansel Adams (1902-1984). Writers, critics and fellow artists have presented many reasons for Adams’ popularity. Among them must be his deeply held conviction – one that parallels our own – that place matters, the world around us is a marvel to behold and to respect and honor. There is also a poignant and romantic feel to the work, as well as a celebration of the beauty of nature. His is a noble and passionate voice about our landscape, and his dedication to his art has given us many inspirational images.
This is a very special collection of his work. The 48 photographs are drawn from the collection of The Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, California. It represents about two-thirds of a selection Adams made late in his life to serve as a succinct representation of his life’s work. He himself felt these photographs were his best. Called “The Museum Set,” it reveals the importance Adams placed on the drama and splendor of natural environments. In presenting this exhibition, titled Ansel Adams: Masterworks, the Peninsula Fine Arts Center will present an educational program to include special lectures and tours and a video film series. Presented in the Ferguson Gallery.
The Landscape Reimagined: Photographs by Kim Keever
At the same time, Pfac presents Landscape Reimagined, Photographs by Kim Keever. Keever’s mysterious and painterly large-scale photographs represent a continuation of the landscape tradition, as well as an evolution of the genre. Though he references the romanticism of the Hudson River School, there is a subversive side to these images.
While the images reflect an authenticity for which photography has historically been used, they are also contrivances. These pictorial worlds – full of illusions to a primordial past or a post-apocalyptic future – are created from constructed miniature topographies using materials such as plaster and reflective Mylar in a 100-gallon aquarium, which is then filled with water. The desolate dream-like dioramas come to life with colored lights and the dispersal of pigment, producing ephemeral atmospheres that he must quickly capture with his large-format camera. Keever fabricates an illusion to conjure the realms of our imagination.
R.G. Brown
Sculptural instillation documenting boat sculpture buried underground in Augusta, GA, incorporating archaeological and scientific instrumentation and documentation.
April 4-May 10: Genesis 2009 / College Student Juried Exhibition
May 14-June 7: Prefaces 2009 / High School Student Juried Exhibition
The Kelly Ludwig Collection, exhibition organized by Smith Kramer
Detour Art – Outsider Art and Folk Art Environments from Coast to Coast highlights art and images by visionaries, untrained artists and folk creators found along the back roads of America. It honors the creative spirit that is at once traditional and whimsical, spiritual and irreverent, earthy and sublime.
Inspired by her work with the PBS show “Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations,” Kelly Ludwig, designer and photographer, has collected artwork and captured images from all regions of the country.
This exhibition includes work by Thornton Dial, Mose Tolliver, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Howard Finster, Minnie Adkins, Linvel and Lillian Barker, The Baltimore Glassman, Sultan Rogers, Mary T. Smith and James Harold Jennings. Among the folk art environments documented are S.P. Dinsmoor’s The Garden of Eden, Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain, Kenny Hill’s Garden of Salvation, Dr. Everonor’s Foreverton and the Grotto of Redemption.
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