New Exhibit: Alan Sislen - "Tonal Visions"

©Alan Sislen

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present new work by Alan Sislen in the exhibit “Tonal Visions”. This exhibit will be on view from May 7 - June 15, 2019. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, May 11th,   2 - 4 pm .

TONAL VISIONS - An Exploration of Structure and Tones

For generations, photography has been described as being all “about the light.” it’s more accurate to say that it’s all about the Light, the Shadows and all the Tones in-between. Tonalities are the language of photography and help communicate the photographer’s intent and the shape, dimension and structure of what’s being photographed.

These highly graphic, black and white architectural images explore the range, quality and beauty of tones that might or might not have existed, but were nonetheless visible in the mind of the photographer.

Each photograph presents only a portion of the structure, but it conveys more than if everything had been presented. The tonalities determine how our eyes and minds travel around and through the images. They attract our attention, determine where we stop to explore and where we find beauty, mystery or uncertainty.

Removing elements within the photographic frame before releasing the shutter often increases, not decreases the importance of what remains. The architect, as artist, designs the whole. As photographer, I had the luxury to choose which elements of the architect’s total creation to showcase and to either accept the tonalities as they were, or to create what I wished had existed.

-Alan Sislen

©Alan Sislen

©Alan Sislen

New Exhibit: Sandy Lebrun-Evans - "Ranch Life"

©Sandy Lebrun-Evans

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present new work by Sandy Lebrun-Evans in the exhibit “Ranch Life”. This exhibit will be on view from March 25 - May 5, 2019. An opening reception will be held on April 7, 2019, 2 - 4 pm.

Sandy describes the experience that led to this new body of work:

Currrent Exhibit: Francine B. Livaditis and Valerie Makepeace

©Valerie Makepeace

©Francine B. Livaditis

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present  two new exhibits: “Las Calles del Ecuador” by Valerie Makepeace and “Closer to Heaven” by Francine B. Livaditis. These exhibits will be on view from February 12 - March 24, 2019. An opening reception will be held on February 17, 2018, 1pm - 3pm.

Francine and Valerie discuss their projects:

Closer to Heaven - Francine B. Livaditis

Color Photographs of the Panteón San Miguel in Cozumel, Mexico

I first visited Cozumel, Mexico in the spring of 2015. It was the first stop on my cruise of the Western Mediterranean. As is my usual manner when I’m at a new place, I headed out on foot with my camera. Traveling southeast from the port area, I wandered through a commercial area that gave way to a residential one. At the end of the street was a cemetery, its gates open.

I had never seen a cemetery like this. It wasn’t because most of the internment spaces were above ground; I had seen this years ago in New Orleans. The intense Caribbean colors of the mausoleums are what took my breath away. As I made my way through the cemetery, I was taken by the sublime beauty of some of the family mausoleums and the derelict condition of others. It appeared that the best days of the cemetery were behind it. I photographed what I found interesting—objects, textures and structures.

I had the opportunity to revisit Cozumel this past December and knew that I wanted to see the cemetery again. Now too far a walk, I hired Eduardo to drive me there. I was happily surprised to see the revival of this cemetery. The already crowded grounds had many new structures and fewer vaults were in disrepair. It warmed my heart.

Online research disclosed that a newer cemetery had been built on the southern outskirts of the town. Eduardo didn’t understand why I wanted to visit one cemetery, let alone two, but he obliged and drove me to my new discovery. It was so different than the older in-town cemetery. This cemetery was at least four times larger and had a road system. Workers were actively constructing in two areas of the grounds. The visual impact at this cemetery is less intense because of the spaciousness, but the beauty of the colorful mausoleums remains.

I hope that you enjoy my wonderment!

Las Calles Del Ecuador - Valerie Makepeace

For 10 days our motorcycle cruised on breathtaking Pacific Coast beaches, across gorges by way of swaying rope and plank suspension bridges, through fragrant chocolate and coffee plantations, up the hairpin curves of the Andes Mountain Range in frighteningly dense fog, across the high plains at 15,000 feet, in a dust storm, dodging vicuna, then down the mountain range on the old cobblestone Pan American Highway with nothing more than the occasional yucca plant to remind us of the oblivion that awaited below and finally into the dazzling Amazon River basin with all it’s outrageous flora and fauna. Along the way I documented the way humans have positioned themselves amongst the splendor that is Ecuador. This show, Las Calles Del Ecuador, is the result of that adventure.

I have chosen to mount the photographs on panel board without frame or glass so that nothing comes between the viewer and the image allowing for it to be seen more closely as I saw it.

"Bold Planet" by Sliter and Leedham reviewed in Washington Post

Congratulations to Matt Leedham and Tom Sliter whose exhibit was reviewed by Mark Jenkins of the Washington Post.

"Several visual conversations chatter in “Bold Planet,” Matt Leedham and Tom Sliter’s show at Multiple Exposures Gallery. Sliter’s black-and-white horizontal photographs hang on a gray wall in two parallel series: sand on top and ice on the bottom. They speak to each other, as well as to Leedham’s color pictures, which are more diverse in format and location — and which pop from a red surface. " [READ MORE]

Bold Planet will be on exhibit at Multiple Exposures Gallery from January 1 - February 10, 2019.

©Matt Leedham

BOLD PLANET: New Work by Matt Leedham and Tom Sliter

©Matt Leedham

©Tom Sliter

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present new of work by Matt Leedham and Tom Sliter: "Bold Planet".  This exhibit will be on view from January 2 through February 10, 2019, with an opening reception to be held on January 12, 2018, 2-4pm.

Matt Leedham

Why are we drawn to the magnificence of nature? It is often the places that are the most remote and the most dramatic that call our attention. The mixture of grandeur and loneliness, and the contrast of complete fullness and emptiness captures my attention. The adventure each image requires of me is my inspiration.  It is my hope that these images inspire you to go out and explore for yourself.

Tom Sliter

Our planet contains myriad landscapes that are at once visually stunning and emotionally appealing. In this exhibit, I focus on the contrasts and similarities of two extreme locations – the Antarctic Peninsula and White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. Despite being separated by thousands of miles and a hundred degrees, both ice and sand are sculpted by common natural forces to reveal an artistic kinship, a visual unity that is reinforced in a black and white print. I hope this exhibit not only captures your imagination but deepens your appreciation for our Bold Planet.

View the exhibit being installed in the video below:

SMALL WORKS Holiday Exhibit

©Sandy Lebrun-Evans

Multiple Exposures Gallery presents

SMALL WORKS

A Fine Art Photography Exhibition Juried By Sarah Gordon

November 27, 2018 — December 30, 2018

Revealing something otherwise unseen.

Juror Sarah Gordon has selected 33 images for exhibition at Multiple Exposures Gallery that she believes reveal something otherwise unseen.

"Part of the mystery and attraction of photography has always been its power to show us something unavailable to the human eye: near infinite detail, frozen motion, the interior of the human body...This group of pictures made me stop, look, and pay close attention," Gordon says in a statement accompanying the selections.

The exhibition can be seen at Multiple Exposures Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center through December 30, 2018. Gallery hours are 11am-5pm daily (Thursdays, 1pm-8pm). All works are framed to 12" x 12".

Photographers included in the exhibition are:

Michael Borek, Danny Conant, Soomin Ham, Tim Hyde, Eric Johnson, Matt Leedham, Francine B. Livaditis, Janet Matthews, Maureen Minehan, Sandy LeBrun-Evans, Sarah Salomon, Tom Sliter, Alan Sislen, Clifford Wheeler

For more information, contact Multiple Exposures Gallery at info@multipleexposuresgallery.com or 703.683.2205.

About Sarah Gordon

Sarah is author of Indecent Exposures: Eadweard Muybridge’s “Animal Locomotion” Nudes. She teaches courses on the history of photography and modern art at American University and Photoworks at Glen Echo, where she also serves on the Board of Directors, and she offers photography gallery talks at the National Gallery of Art. Sarah has curated exhibitions at the American University Museum at the Katzen Center and, at the National Gallery of Art, contributed to exhibitions of photographs by Robert Frank, Harry Callahan, Charles Marville, and Frederick Sommer. Sarah also consults with private art collectors in the Washington, DC region.

Fall Group Show

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present a group show of members' work, juried by Joe Cameron. The exhibit will run from October 16 - November 25, 2018.

Joe Cameron started out as a painter, but in his mid-twenties he fell in love with photography and never looked back. He went on to teach fine-art photography for thirty-five years at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Joe’s work is in the collections of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. His solo exhibitions include the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. He has received artist grants from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Washington Gallery of Modern Art and the Franz and Virginia Bader Fund. He shares his thoughts on the work that he chose for this exhibit:

Fine art photography is an unusual practice. A painter begins with a blank canvas, a sculptor stands before an unformed block of wood or stone. What lies ahead is the arduous task of creating something out of nothing. But a person with little or no training, holding a camera, can produce a perfectly formed picture in a thousandth of a second. Cameras are designed to make perfect pictures.

But therein lies the rub. Perfect in camera terms usually means clear and precise, an accurate replication of what lies before the camera’s lens and nothing more. Such images are often of little sustaining interest beyond the witnessing of a moment frozen in time.

What makes camera images vital and exciting when created by a skilled photographer, is a viewer’s discovery that with patience and a quiet mind, unforeseen layers of meaning are often revealed. A tree is a tree…is sometimes much more than just a tree.

I looked for such moments when choosing work for this exhibition, and there were many. The photographers of Multiple Exposures Gallery are a diverse and highly skilled group. They maintain a high standard of excellence and deserve the attention of art lovers as well as the community at large. I thank MEG for the opportunity to engage their work in depth.

Joe Cameron

Danny Conant: "Women by Women"

The work of MEG artist Danny Conant is currently featured in the group exhibit “Women by Women”, located at Corner Store 900 So. Carolina Ave SE, Washington DC. Two blocks from Eastern Market Metro. The exhibit will be on display September. 27-November 10, 2018.

Michael Borek Exhibit - Washington City Paper CRITICS' PICK

Michel Borek’s current exhibit, “Aimless Walk Reprise”, has bee reviewed in the Washington City Paper as a CRITIC’S PICK. You can read it here:

https://local.washingtoncitypaper.com/event/torpedo-factory-art-center/aimless-walk-reprise-cl

Reviews of Michael Borek's exhibition in Palmovka Synagogue in Prague

Michael Borek had a recent exhibition, “From the White House to Libeň”, of his work in Palmovka Synagogue in Prague, Czech Republic. The show presents three projects: "Treachery of Images" inspired by Rene Magritte shows the photos of the White House and American presidents on the sides of tourist buses. "Scranton Lace" captures abandoned factory in Pennsylvania and "Aimless Walk Reprise" shows disappearing Prague outskirts in Libeň Island together with the idealized rendition of the newly constructed apartments on the posters put up by the developer.

Links to reviews of this exhibition, an interview on Czech Radio, and photos from the opening - all in Czech, not English - are listed below:

Aktuálně.cz - recenze výstavy a životopisný profil Michaela Borka / (Daniel Anýž)
Exhibition review and profile of Michael Borek / (Daniel Anýž)

Český rozhlas - Vltava - recenze výstavy a rozhovor s Michaelem Borkem (Alena Rokosová)
Exhibition review and interview with Michael Borek (Alena Rokosová)

Martin Fryč- recenze výstavy (Martin Fryč)

Exhibition review (Martin Fryč)

Kulturaok-EU - recenze výstavy (Olga Koníčková)
Exhibition review (Olga Koníčková)

Vernisáž - fotografie z vernisáže (Tomáš Mazal 1-9, Jan Dobrovský 10-25)
Photos from the opening (Tomáš Mazal 1-9, Jan Dobrovský 10-25)

©Tomáš Mazal

©Michael Borek

©Jan Dobrovský

©Tomáš Mazal