April 19 - June 7, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, April 19th 5-8pm

The six artists exhibiting all earned MFAs in Photography on an average of 30 years ago. Bjerke from Central Michigan University; Brown, Nagatani and Rankin from UCLA; Kelley and Langwell from UNM. As mature artists each has investigated their personal spaces with a variety of different processes and media.

Carol Chase Bjerke’s “Touch/Stones”, is about the point of contact or a connection. A cairn on a granite mountain, a wall on a limestone and shale island, a tomb, a portal, a stile, a ritual, an offering, a game or a path. Her beautiful gelatin silver prints and handmade books provide these intimate associations.

Gillian Brown's work is informed by creation myths from around the world, recent scientific work on how existence comes into being and her personal sense of how something comes out of nothing in our consciousness and our perception.

Jyl Kelley practices imitative magic, illusion and science. Her works incorporate still and moving images, sound, digital technologies, performance and installation art. She investigates the history of technology in western culture and how the progression of technology has transformed our experience of living.

Leigh Anne Langwell uses her mother’s sewing pins, her father’s map tacks and entomology pins left over from her abandoned study of biology to construct galaxies that are small mediations on charting a course “home”.

Patrick Nagatani has “painted” with masking tape for over 30 years. His tape-estries hauntingly cover and yet reveal the historical landscapes influenced by Buddhist thought. He dwells within each landscape that he tapes in a meditative internal way that become private universes in their creation.

Scott Rankin has been primarily making videos since 1980. He has recently returned to photography, making images from the sky (he is a certified pilot) from points of view of the ground and the air. The sky is the source of light, moisture, and energy.

All the artists deal with spaces within their private universes whether it be looking at the ground, the sky, the cosmos or the interior of the senses and thought. The exhibition is unique in that all the work needs to be seen and experienced for greater understanding rather than reproduced in any manner.