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PHOTOGRAPHY from the GALLERY COLLECTION

An Exhibition of 19th Century

Hand-Colored Japanese Photographs

FUTURE SHOW

Forgotten Memories, Paintings

June 23 to July 25, 2010

These photographs are still available.

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Our July show featured paintings by San Francisco artist Jhina Alvarado. Working with orphaned snapshots long removed from the contextual meaning of family dynamics, Alvarado paints forgotten individuals amid an ambiguous white space rendered slightly opaque & dream-like by an overlay of encaustic wax.

DEATH PORTRAITS

1930s Morgue Photographs

CURRENT SHOW

The Black Pictures

Extended to September 26, 2010

Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token.                             

- Edgar Allen Poe

Our August show features twenty gelatin silver photographs by Santa Barbara artist, Gail Pine. Borrowing their titles from the poetry of Poe & their mercurial, reductive substance from the missing stories of lost snapshots, her pieces compel us to peer into the darkness of their surface & ponder several questions. Just what type of image is this? Is it antique or contemporary? What do the ghostly figures & luminescent landscapes have to tell us about  daily fears & nightly dreams? "While I initially started with death lying thick within my brain," Pine notes, "after working on The Black Pictures for the better part of a year, I came to realize that I was actually rebirthing these lost snapshots, creating new allegories, a kind of schism of sorts. Incestuous by their very nature, and reborn in the complete blackness of a darkroom, these snapshots have given birth to new, opposite variations of themselves."

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Tuesday to Saturday 12 to 7 & Sunday 12 to 5. Or by Appt.

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