”Jones Point” by Eric Johnson
WINTER
About a third of the photographs in “Winter” are in color, but that’s not always immediately obvious. The Multiple Exposures Gallery group show depicts a whited-out world, where most details are buried under snow: Four clustered plastic flamingos offer just a hint of pink in Tom Sliter’s lawn scene, and a remote yellow shed provides the only color in Maureen Minehan’s landscape.
The gallery is known for devising story-less narratives, arranging photos purely by visual affinities. “Winter” takes a similar approach, shifting from mountain to mountain and tree to tree. One striking pair juxtaposes views of jagged dark gashes through whiteness: a fence in Alan Sislen’s picture and a stream in Fred Zafran’s.
A winter storm can transform an everyday object, such as the snow-blasted door Eric Johnson found just a few blocks from the gallery. It can also nearly obliterate a vista, like the one Soomin Ham renders in white and light gray with just a few black shapes, apparently birds, in the middle distance. In both pictures a coating of white occasions new ways of seeing.
Winter Through Jan. 28 at Multiple Exposures Gallery, Torpedo Factory, 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. multipleexposuresgallery.com. 703-683-2205.