Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art is admiring to advertise the accumulation exhibition “The Contemporary Landscape” aperture December 8, 2005 and active through February 28, 2006.
San Francisco, CA -- Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art is admiring to advertise “The Contemporary Landscape”, a accumulation exhibition featuring works by Lisa Blatt, Matthias Geiger, Bill Jacobson, Stephen Joseph, Kim Keever, Richard Lohmann, Chris McCaw and Denny Moers. “The Contemporary Landscape,” which explores a array of capacity in abreast mural photography opens on December 8, 2005 and will run through February 28, 2006. A clandestine accession for the artists will be captivated on Thursday, December 8th from 5pm - 8pm.
Traditional notions of mural photography adjure up the plan of artists such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham. These artists approved to certificate the beastly adorableness of the American mural chargeless from animal interference. Adams searched for the abstract through the eye of a appearance camera in Yellowstone National Park and added arresting locations. His images are allegorical of abstention and, consequently, a alarm for preservation. The artists featured in “The Contemporary Landscape” aswell try to arm-twist the alarming through nature, but they do not do so through accurate means. The mural is instead explored through the lens of imagination, memory, claimed history, technology and metaphor. Susan Sontag wrote that “Photographs are conceivably the a lot of abstruse of all the altar that accomplish up, and thicken, the ambiance we admit as modern.” Through altered lenses, we accretion a broader angle on the assorted perceptions of the avant-garde mural in photography. The avant-garde mural is hardly chargeless from signs of animal arrest and appropriately cannot be afar from the cultural ambience through which it is viewed. Landscapes are not changeless but in a around-the-clock accompaniment of transformation, the aftereffect of both accustomed and counterfeit phenomena. In aciculate adverse to the works of aboriginal naturalist photographers, whose images portray the ability and abidingness of the accustomed world, the angle in this display are of alive landscapes, apparent through altered perspectives and absurd to fix in time.
Kim Keever was complete in New York City. Kim Keever started out his career as a painter, which is simple to appreciate while attending one of his awe-inspiring photographs. His works, from a distance, appear to be old adept paintings, evocative of the amplitude and affect of the landscapes appropriate of the Hudson River School painters. Yet, on added inspection, it becomes aboveboard that the plan is not alone accurate but a crafted landscape. Keever’s ambiguous photographs are created in a 100 gallon angle catchbasin in his flat with a ample architecture camera. The mountains are fabricated of plaster, the copse out of branches or Bonsai, and the blurred skies are created by the burning of acrylic through the water. Keever writes about his process, “It’s so abundant fun to see the acrylic clouds move through the baptize and it all starts to attending so real, I feel like I am watching a cine or I accept been transported to this lilliputian apple of my own creation.” The absurd landscapes Keever creates arm-twist the works of abundant American mural painters and the photographers of the American West such as Ansel Adams, who approved to abduction the abstract in the clear landscape. Yet, Keever’s plan has an air of the surreal and the apocalyptic. Jeffrey Cyphers Wright describes the bifold attributes of Keever’s photographs, “An astonishing faculty of active activity lurks just beneath the surface. Nature is bipolar. Any moment, all hell could breach loose.” In Summer: Blue, Yellow and Gray, an idyllic, brume enshrouded, pastoral mural is blowzy with uprooted trees, which appear to be the debris of a agitated storm. The eyewitness feels as if they are witnessing the unraveling of nature’s artistic and annihilative forces. Edward Leffingwell writes in Art in America magazine, “Keever takes the role of sole artisan and recording attestant to the aboriginal canicule of creation, or conceivably the last.” Keever’s plan has been apparent internationally, including a abandoned exhibition this year at Feigen Contemporary Gallery in Manhattan. He lives and works in New York City.
Bill Jacobson was complete in Norwich, Connecticut and accustomed his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Jacobson’s blurred photographs are meditations on the conciseness of the concrete world. They arm-twist the access of moments crumbling off into the ambit and the conciseness of our own days. #3529 is an cryptic and addictive landscape, which unfolds through attenuate forms. #4195 is a agreeable photograph, which follows the access of an burghal moment. Eugenia Parry writes in her article Bill Jacobson, “Bill Jacobson's photographs abide simple identification. They are blurred, diffuse, and atmospheric, depicting alone the ambiguous outlines of burghal scenes, rural landscapes, and animal figures.” His works are snapshots that we accept all apparent with our own eyes, but accept continued back achromatic in our memories Bill Jacobson writes, “Most photographs are meant as abstracts of moments we ambition to authority on to forever. My plan suggests that these moments, like activity itself, are consistently crumbling into the past.” Jacobson’s plan has been broadly apparent both nationally and internationally, including a abandoned exhibition in 2005 at the Julie Saul Gallery in Manhattan and a accepted abandoned exhibition at the Milliken Gallery in Stockholm. His plan is included in the accumulating of abounding accessible and clandestine collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Bill aswell has two appear books of his photographs, Bill Jacobson 1989-1997 and Bill Jacobson: Photographs, which was appear in 2005. Jacobson lives and works in Brooklyn.
Denny Moers was complete in Detroit, Michigan. His accurate landscapes are agreeable and surreal translations of the beheld world. Each of his works is a monoprint, acceptation that it is a unique, irreproducible image. The aberration in his photographs happens during the press process. Moers shoots on atramentous and white blur and works with the acceptable argent chloride print, yet with the careful use of ablaze and toners during the press process, he creates a advanced arrangement of hues such as reds, golds and blues. The final aftereffect of this action is that his photographs attending duke colored, yet what we see is the aftereffect of a actinic reaction. Moers’ plan has been acutely afflicted by both music and poetry. His landscapes article to go above the beheld into the branch of emotion, as a composition echoes above its own words. Moers writes about the aesthetics abaft his work, “I accept consistently acquainted the beheld acquaintance -- landscapes, architecture, age-old forms -- and the monoprints I actualize from these places as an act aloft the accessible field, sensitized to whatever I could accompany to it and accept from it. Photographing and press has consistently been that of transformation from the accurate to the imagined, and from the apparent to the felt.” His plan is in abounding accessible collections, including the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Moers has two appear books of his monoprints, Denny Moers: Figments of a Landscape and In the Ultra-Silent Light: Monoprints by Denny Moers.
Matthias Geiger teaches photography at UC Davis. In his Caretaker series, Geiger creates diptychs that analyze a absolute activity angel of acutely clear attributes with an identical mural that he constructs in his own studio. The complete mural includes animal abstracts who through their alternation with the space, acknowledge their accord with it. He writes about the Caretaker series, “The mural angel abandoned of abstracts shows accustomed adorableness excluding any animal intrusion. They activity our anamnesis of a time afore an all-embracing animal arrest into our world. Completing the angel pair, the amount in (or rather in front) of the additional mural represents altered activities we accomplish in attributes defining the abstracts in accord to their accustomed ambience further.” His plan has been apparent internationally, including exhibitions at the Von Lintel Gallery, PS 1 MOMA and the Miami University Art Museum.
Lisa Blatt accustomed her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her minimalist photographs abduction the amplitude and blank of the arid landscape. Blatt writes, “My interests cover capturing ablaze and acceptance the eyewitness a perceptual and representational acquaintance like that of accepting in the desert.” Her plan has been apparent at the Southern Exposure gallery, the Pro Arts Annual, the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery and the Oakland Art Gallery. Blatt afresh alternate from a cruise to Chile area she was an artisan in abode with NASA.
Stephen Joseph photographs the mural in both three dimensional and across-the-board views. His amusing mural photographs in this exhibition are of Mt. Diablo, which he has been exploring and photographing for the accomplished twenty years. Joseph is currently alive on a book of artists in their studios and his photographs will be featured in a book documenting John Muir’s botanical studies, which will be appear by Heyday Books of Berkeley. He lives and works in Contra Costa County.
Richard Lohmann creates agenda photographs with the bendable tones and blush appropriate of a platinum print. Lohmann achieves this aftereffect through duke aggregate six altered tones of abiding Carbon colorant inks and press on accomplished art rag paper. His landscapes acquire a affluence and abyss different to this anatomy of printing. Lohmann’s plan is in abundant accessible and clandestine collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Richard Lohmann teaches photography at the College of San Mateo and lives and works in La Honda.
Chris McCaw was complete in Daly City and accustomed his BFA from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. In his Family Farm series, Chris McCaw abstracts the adventurous and abandoned mural of his family’s almond acreage in Manteca, CA. He creates these images with a home fabricated 7”x 17” appearance camera and a duke coated platinum/ aegis press process. McCaw writes, “Since 1997, I accept been committed to certificate this abode and way of activity that is dematerialization in California... In 2002, I fabricated the angel “Split Tree from a abundant crop” in acknowledgment to the abrupt absoluteness of the approaching of this farm… This activity will abide until the acreage is assuredly gone, acceptable accepting covered by burghal homes.” McCaw has apparent at the George Eastman house, the Palo Alto Art Center, Watermark Fine Art, Houston, and currently has a appearance at the San Francisco International Airport Museum
About the Gallery
Located in the Hotel Nikko at 222 Mason Street, Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art specializes in abreast painting, carve and photography, and provides art-consulting casework for accumulated and accessory markets. The arcade seeks to breed a accumulating of artworks which represent a advanced ambit of media, function, and aesthetic; to advertise works of arising or mid-career bounded and all-embracing artists; and to be a amplitude which fosters, encourages, and inspires the acknowledgment and amusement of art. The arcade is co-owned by Holly Baxter and acclaimed San Francisco artisan Piero Patri.
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