THE COLLECTIVE: The Nature of Things
Show Dates: August 10th – September 7th, 2024
Opening Reception & Artist Visit: August 10th, 2024 4:00pm-7:00pm
Escondido’s Arts Event 2nd Saturday: August 10th, 2024 4:00pm-7:00pm
Show Statement:
In this exhibition, our Collective members were asked to create images that respond to the idea of ‘The Nature of Things’. Broadly this can be interpreted as the most basic characteristics of a thing, a place, the human experience and even the universe. As you will see, each of our artists have acknowledged this theme through their own perception and aesthetic.
For many of us, we understand ‘the nature of things’ to be in deep accordance with Nature, a heightened appreciation of our natural surroundings and our place within them. For Keiko Yamasaki, it is the vast star-studded sky above a Yellowstone NP landscape, for Bob Younger it is a single ocean-smoothed stone on the beach at Pt Lobos.
Here you will see detail from the natural world. David Marsh’s toned lumens of leaves, Barbara Beck’s platinum palladiums of a rose, John Clark’s colorful views of flowers and Deb Hellman’s salt print of a Ranunculus all speak to grace found in the simplicity of Nature.
Being in harmony with Nature is seen in Tom Vancisin and Grant Brittains’ flowing water images from Yosemite and Sequoia NP. It is hoped my SX70 diptych of White Oaks gives the viewer my sense of respect for Portland’s Heritage trees. Terry Allen’s images tweak reality using infrared and lean into invisible light and Carla DeDominicis’ work reveals her experience with one on one animal encounters from her travels.
Jodie Hulden, Stephen Davis, and Robert Barry record man’s mark making and intrusion in the landscape. The inherent characteristics of human impact becomes art and science, beauty and trash.
Brandy Sebastian’s portrait work of her grandfather, ‘Pop’, are personal history. Through her photographs we may recognize our own humanity and basic nature.
Please enjoy our Collective’s unique take on The Nature of Things
Donna Cosentino
Director, The Photographer’s Eye
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Please contact Donna Cosentino for private tours.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 11am-5pm OR you may make an appointment to view our exhibitions.
+Gallery visits for individuals or classes are also available by appointment.
+There is no charge to visit and there is free parking in front and behind the gallery space.
ALWAYS ON VIEW ARE WORKS BY OUR COLLECTIVE OF FIFTEEN PHOTOGRAPHERS.
OUR COLLECTIVE IS:
TERRY SCOTT ALLEN ï ROBERT BARRY ï BARBARA BECK ï GRANT BRITTAIN ï JOHN CLARKï DONNA COSENTINO ï STEPHEN DAVIS ï CARLA De DOMINICIS ï DEB HELLMAN ï JODIE HULDEN ï EMILY KIM ï DAVID MARSH ï BRANDY SEBASTIAN ï WAYNE SWANSON ï TOM VANCISIN ï KEIKO YAMASAKI ï BOB YOUNGER
CLICK ON IMAGES TO VIEW INDIVIDUAL IMAGE GALLERY
Show Dates: August 10th – September 7th, 2024
Opening Reception & Artist Visit: August 10th, 2024 4:00pm-7:00pm
Escondido’s Arts Event 2nd Saturday: August 10th, 2024 4:00pm-7:00pm
Show Statement:
In this exhibition, our Collective members were asked to create images that respond to the idea of ‘The Nature of Things’. Broadly this can be interpreted as the most basic characteristics of a thing, a place, the human experience and even the universe. As you will see, each of our artists have acknowledged this theme through their own perception and aesthetic.
For many of us, we understand ‘the nature of things’ to be in deep accordance with Nature, a heightened appreciation of our natural surroundings and our place within them. For Keiko Yamasaki, it is the vast star-studded sky above a Yellowstone NP landscape, for Bob Younger it is a single ocean-smoothed stone on the beach at Pt Lobos.
Here you will see detail from the natural world. David Marsh’s toned lumens of leaves, Barbara Beck’s platinum palladiums of a rose, John Clark’s colorful views of flowers and Deb Hellman’s salt print of a Ranunculus all speak to grace found in the simplicity of Nature.
Being in harmony with Nature is seen in Tom Vancisin and Grant Brittains’ flowing water images from Yosemite and Sequoia NP. It is hoped my SX70 diptych of White Oaks gives the viewer my sense of respect for Portland’s Heritage trees. Terry Allen’s images tweak reality using infrared and lean into invisible light and Carla DeDominicis’ work reveals her experience with one on one animal encounters from her travels.
Jodie Hulden, Stephen Davis, and Robert Barry record man’s mark making and intrusion in the landscape. The inherent characteristics of human impact becomes art and science, beauty and trash.
Brandy Sebastian’s portrait work of her grandfather, ‘Pop’, are personal history. Through her photographs we may recognize our own humanity and basic nature.
Please enjoy our Collective’s unique take on The Nature of Things
Donna Cosentino
Director, The Photographer’s Eye
______________________________________________________________________________________
Please contact Donna Cosentino for private tours.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 11am-5pm OR you may make an appointment to view our exhibitions.
+Gallery visits for individuals or classes are also available by appointment.
+There is no charge to visit and there is free parking in front and behind the gallery space.
ALWAYS ON VIEW ARE WORKS BY OUR COLLECTIVE OF FIFTEEN PHOTOGRAPHERS.
OUR COLLECTIVE IS:
TERRY SCOTT ALLEN ï ROBERT BARRY ï BARBARA BECK ï GRANT BRITTAIN ï JOHN CLARKï DONNA COSENTINO ï STEPHEN DAVIS ï CARLA De DOMINICIS ï DEB HELLMAN ï JODIE HULDEN ï EMILY KIM ï DAVID MARSH ï BRANDY SEBASTIAN ï WAYNE SWANSON ï TOM VANCISIN ï KEIKO YAMASAKI ï BOB YOUNGER
CLICK ON IMAGES TO VIEW INDIVIDUAL IMAGE GALLERY
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