Kyungwoo Chun

Bernhard Knaus Fine Art: July 28 to August 28, 2021

In this exhibition, Kyungwoo Chun (born 1969) shows a comparison of earlier works from the Pseudonym, Light Calligraphy, BreaThings series and current works such as the video Perfect Relay and the Most Beautiful series. What the photo and video works have in common is a performative process in which the people involved follow the artist's instructions and the artist creates the image in long exposures.

© Francis Olschafskie, Courtesy of The Schoolhouse Gallery and The Provincetown Art Association and Museum

The Silent Side of a Shiver by Francis Olschafskie

Provincetown Art Association and Museum July 23 to September 19, 2021

This exhibition presents a selection of over 20 recent photographs. The photographs on view are primarily from the last decade and are the results of a period of intense concentration on a particular set of subjects, methods, and sources that embody a culmination of his ideas and interests from his extensive photographic career. The viewer’s experience in the exhibition will be one of being led through a visual journey. The selected works are technically and formally thrilling while also suggesting something deeper and larger. These photographs challenge the notion of depth, reflection, and the nature of reality while intertwining history with modern urban landscapes. Olschafskie has made an exhibition of pictures that make you question the way you think you see.

Photograms by Klea McKenna

KMR Arts July 24 to August 14, 2021

KMR Arts is thrilled to present our new show, Klea McKenna, July 24-August 14, 2021. Join us for the opening reception, Saturday, July 24 from 2-5pm.

Klea McKenna uses the photogram process to create unique gelatin silver prints that contain both vivid detail and ethereal abstraction. Unlike a photograph created with a camera, a photogram is a one-of-a-kind object that involves physical contact between a subject and the light sensitive printing surface, representing the mark of that interaction. This exhibition is a curated selection of work from 4 different series: Rain Studies, Web Studies, Automatic Earth, and Generation.

Rain Studies are an ongoing series of unique gelatin silver photograms of rain made outdoors at night. McKenna began making these on the big Island in Hawaii, where rain is plentiful, but continued them back home in California as it suffered through a period of severe drought.

Web Studies are unique gelatin silver photograms of rain caught in the webs of orb-weaver spiders. Remarkable feats of engineering built each day to catch prey, the webs are also delicate and damaged. Like the patterns found inside trees and in our own lives, the webs follow a particular form yet each is unique and exquisitely flawed.

In her series Automatic Earth, McKenna emphasizes the physicality of the photogram process and builds on it by forcing the paper to record texture as well as light. Working in near darkness she applies pressure on the center cut of a tree to physically imprint the texture into the photographic paper and then selectively exposes the paper to light creating what the artist calls a "photographic relief."

With Generation, McKenna applies this method to textiles and women's clothing from different cultures that are rich in the legacy of touch: from the labor of their making to the textures of the designs, to the marks of continual wear. For McKenna, her process "is driven by my desire for communication with women from a time and place different than my own...With each alteration, mending, and use, someone has inscribed themselves onto these textiles."

Events:

Davis Islands Photography Workshop July 28 (6:45 PM to 8:30 PM EST)

In this hands-on photo safari, professional photographer Amy Pezzicara will help you explore the photographic techniques to capture the essence of a place. Bring your camera and get to know our location from every angle. We will work through shooting challenges and on-the-spot critiques to expand upon your thought processes.

This class is appropriate for all levels of photography, ages 13 and up. It’s a great opportunity to ask questions and get instant feedback as you work with shutter speed, depth of field and ISO. Please bring a camera that you know how to use and adjust settings. A phone is acceptable if you use an app that allows you to manually control the camera (such VSCO). Dress is casual as we will be outside and possibly on the ground at times.

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Photography Competition June 23 to September 30, 2021

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! is a platform from The Little Black Gallery committed to promoting queer and gay photography.

Images play a vital role in telling important stories, and photography has proved a powerful force in inspiring and promoting the queer and gay community.

We’re looking for striking fine art photographs from the queer and gay community from around the globe for our debut BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Photography Competition. We welcome entries from both amateurs and professionals alike.

Competition closing date: September 30, 2021.

Reception with Susan Burnstine for Where the Shadows Cease exhibition July 29 (5 to 7 PM MDT)

Obscura Gallery is thrilled to present our 2021 Summer exhibition, Where Shadows Cease: Resonance of America's Dream, with gallery artist Susan Burnstine. The prints in the exhibition include recent additions to Burnstine’s ongoing color series captured on self-made cameras, which explore the connections between the personal and collective unconscious during an unparalleled period in America. By infusing common dream themes and symbols found within the familiar, Susan Burnstine has observed commonly shared memories and universal representations found at places connected to the ethos of the “American Dream,” which reflect the collective hopes, fears and aspirations found in the social topography of America. Through revisiting iconic locations and landscapes across the United States she has explored corridors of this land through visual metaphor and symbolism as a means to uncover the hidden uniformities that reside within the nations’ collective unconscious in the present era.

The exhibition coincides with Susan’s workshop at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and the artist reception will take place at Obscura Gallery on Thursday, July 29, from 5-7pm.