New Group Photography Exhibition "The Contemporary Landscape" opens at Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art December 8th
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 30, 2005 -- Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art is pleased to announce ?The Contemporary Landscape?, a group 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 variety of themes in contemporary landscape photography opens on December 8, 2005 and will run through February 28, 2006. A private reception for the artists will be held on Thursday, December 8th from 5pm - 8pm.">New Group Photography Exhibition ?The Contemporary Landscape? opens at Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art December 8th: "San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 30, 2005 -- Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art is pleased to announce ?The Contemporary Landscape?, a group 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 variety of themes in contemporary landscape photography opens on December 8, 2005 and will run through February 28, 2006. A private reception for the artists will be held on Thursday, December 8th from 5pm - 8pm.
Kim Keever was born in New York City. Kim Keever started out his career as a painter, which is easy to comprehend while beholding one of his monumental photographs. His works, from a distance, appear to be old master paintings, reminiscent of the grandeur and romanticism of the landscapes characteristic of the Hudson River School painters. Yet, on further inspection, it becomes apparent that the work is not only photographic but a crafted landscape. Keever?s enigmatic photographs are created in a 100 gallon fish tank in his studio with a large format camera. The mountains are made of plaster, the trees out of branches or Bonsai, and the cloudy skies are created by the dispersion of paint through the water. Keever writes about his process, ?It?s so much fun to see the paint clouds move through the water and it all starts to look so real, I feel like I am watching a movie or I have been transported to this lilliputian world of my own creation.? The imagined landscapes Keever creates evoke the works of great American landscape painters and the photographers of the American West such as Ansel Adams, who sought to capture the sublime in the untouched landscape. Yet, Keever?s work has an air of the surreal and the apocalyptic. Jeffrey Cyphers Wright describes the dual nature of Keever?s photographs, ?An uncanny sense of kinetic energy lurks just under the surface. Nature is bipolar. Any moment, all hell could break loose.? In Summer: Blue, Yellow and Gray, an idyllic, mist enshrouded, pastoral landscape is littered with uprooted trees, which appear to be the remnants of a violent storm. The viewer feels as if they are witnessing the unraveling of nature?s creative and destructive forces. Edward Leffingwell writes in Art in America magazine, ?Keever takes the role of sole architect and recording witness to the first days of creation, or perhaps the last.? Keever?s work has been exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition this year at Feigen Contemporary Gallery in Manhattan. He lives and works in New York City.
Kim Keever was born in New York City. Kim Keever started out his career as a painter, which is easy to comprehend while beholding one of his monumental photographs. His works, from a distance, appear to be old master paintings, reminiscent of the grandeur and romanticism of the landscapes characteristic of the Hudson River School painters. Yet, on further inspection, it becomes apparent that the work is not only photographic but a crafted landscape. Keever?s enigmatic photographs are created in a 100 gallon fish tank in his studio with a large format camera. The mountains are made of plaster, the trees out of branches or Bonsai, and the cloudy skies are created by the dispersion of paint through the water. Keever writes about his process, ?It?s so much fun to see the paint clouds move through the water and it all starts to look so real, I feel like I am watching a movie or I have been transported to this lilliputian world of my own creation.? The imagined landscapes Keever creates evoke the works of great American landscape painters and the photographers of the American West such as Ansel Adams, who sought to capture the sublime in the untouched landscape. Yet, Keever?s work has an air of the surreal and the apocalyptic. Jeffrey Cyphers Wright describes the dual nature of Keever?s photographs, ?An uncanny sense of kinetic energy lurks just under the surface. Nature is bipolar. Any moment, all hell could break loose.? In Summer: Blue, Yellow and Gray, an idyllic, mist enshrouded, pastoral landscape is littered with uprooted trees, which appear to be the remnants of a violent storm. The viewer feels as if they are witnessing the unraveling of nature?s creative and destructive forces. Edward Leffingwell writes in Art in America magazine, ?Keever takes the role of sole architect and recording witness to the first days of creation, or perhaps the last.? Keever?s work has been exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition this year at Feigen Contemporary Gallery in Manhattan. He lives and works in New York City.
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