Seven: An Exhibition by Seven Photographers

                                     October 11-November 6

    Opening Reception: Sunday, October 16, 3-6pm

 

Kehler Liddell Gallery is pleased to present “Seven,” a group show by seven photographic artists. Featuring the work of Rod Cook, Matthew Garrett, Andrew Hogan, Keith Johnson, Hank Paper, Alan Shulik, and Marjorie Wolfe. This unique exhibition is a testament to the diversity of styles and esthetics within the photographic medium.    The diverse methods used by the seven artists include Platinum palladium process, multiple image printing and photojournalism.


Rod Cook !s photographs offer rare moments of surreal beauty. Each image is a glimpse into an intimate gesture – sometimes haunting, other times reminiscent of a comforting memory. Using the Platinum/Palladium process – a technical process in which a light sensitive emulsion is coated directly on the surface of a sheet of paper – Cook's photographs exhibit a stunning, soft luminosity that evoke a deep emotional response within the viewer.


Matthew Garrett is a photographer who extracts uncanny and strange images from urban and suburban environments. His photographs isolate murmurs from the rhythms of our daily surroundings. Garrett transforms familiar spaces into mysterious, meditative spaces. His compositions play with light intensity and utilize spacial juxtapositions to create signature, dramatic visual effects.


Andrew Hogan's photographs capture fleeting moments of emotion that are indefinable by words alone: Mere glimpses or gestures that can suggest anentire life story. His photographs reveal fleeting moments of personal history and their underlying emotions that are undiminished by time. Hogan captures these powerful emotional stories in their beauty and mystery. His images uncover what is hidden in our everyday lives, and show how time and distance affect our personal realities and perceptions.


Keith Johnson makes photographs that are an investigation of extended imagery. By printing multiple images on a single piece of paper, Johnson is able to push the photograph beyond the single print, into a grid work that creates new frames and connections between images. The juxtaposition of multiple pictures steers the viewer!s focus to the idea of the image - toward the image!s string of potential suggested by layers of graphic detail.


Hank Paper !s photographs are from a series entitled “Island Life.” Paper shoots in an intuitive, photojournalistic style that allows the true nature of his subjects to be seen, often in juxtaposition with their absurd nature. Paper!s photographs can be viewed as testimonies of people in their every day life. However, his often humorous images do more than just expose the ordinary. They puncture the viewer!s preconceived notions of his fellow man by revealing his subjects in unexpected roles and contexts that both surprise and sometimes astonish.


Alan Shulik paints with the lens of the camera in such a way as to produce abstract-surrealist images that conjure up ethereal, dream-like experiences. The images he will exhibit in this show are landscape photographs depicting the coastlines of Maine and Connecticut. Possessing a quiet, ethereal quality, these images are at once fleeting glances and moments of stillness.


Marjorie Wolfe's approach to photography, though simple and direct, reveals a hidden world. Wolfe's photographs were all taken at the same pond in Martha!s Vineyard, a place that the artist visits often. However, despite familiarity with the location, through Wolfe's sensitive visual esthetic, she is able to use the camera to expose the subtle contrasts around her – near and far, old and young, clamor and peace.