New Exhibit by Tom Sliter, Cold Warriors : June 14 - July 24, 2022

© Tom Sliter

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to announce a new photography exhibition, Cold Warriors, by Tom Sliter. The exhibit will be on the view from June 14 to July 24, 2022.

Cold Warriors is a series of images that takes a different look at the aircraft that defined the Cold War. Rather than focusing on the aircraft’s characteristics, the exhibit delves into the underlying design elements -- the grand sweeps, smooth lines, sharp angles, and graceful curves that are a hallmark of pushing boundaries. Higher. Faster. Farther.

But this inherent beauty is intertwined with the complicated, darker story of the forces that drove these designs. Unlike most aviation photography, the partial, cropped views and the black and white presentation encourage the viewer to engage on a deeper level – to acknowledge the aircraft’s grave purpose, but also to appreciate their inherent beauty.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Tom Sliter is a fine art photographer in Washington, DC with a long-standing fascination with aviation. His photography has received national and international recognition. He is a juried member of the Torpedo Factory Artist Association and has been a member of MEG since 2018.

Contact: Tom Sliter, t_sliter@msn.com, www.tsliterphotography.com/projects, 202-641-4185

In the galleries: Van Pulley's “Tree Eternal”- Washington Post Art Review by Mark Jenkins

Van Pulley

Because of its durability, cypress is sometimes called “the wood eternal.” The living trees are also impressively enduring: In 2019, a North Carolina bald cypress was determined to be more than 2,600 years old. Yet few old-growth cypresses survive, a development that partly inspired Northern Virginia photographer Van Pulley’s “Tree Eternal.” The Multiple Exposures Gallery show comprises 21 numbered views of trees in the Caddo Lake bayou on the Louisiana-Texas border.

The muted-color photos effectively evoke the semiaquatic landscape and conjure a moist, hazy vibe. Cypresses are the central focus, offering strong vertical contrasts to the horizontally oriented pictures. Just as striking, though, are the mists that shroud the water line, sometimes ascending in vaporous columns, and the diffused light that streaks the lake’s surface and highlights the trees’ trunks and leaves.

Save for the egret in one picture, the vistas appear unpopulated, seemingly free from human intrusion. That, of course, is not true of cypresses in general. The trees are threatened by logging, habitat loss and saltwater intrusion caused by rising sea levels. While Pulley’s visual essay conveys an aura of endless serenity, the trees’ eternal survival is very much in question.

Van Pulley: Tree Eternal Through June 12 at Multiple Exposures Gallery, Torpedo Factory, 105 N. Union St., Alexandria.

“Tree Eternal”, a Solo Exhibition by Van Pulley

Exhibition Dates: May 4 to June 12, 2022

© Van Pulley

The Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a solo exhibition 'Tree Eternal" by Van Pulley. The exhibition runs from May 4 to June 12, 2022.

Cypress wood is known as the 'wood eternal', stemming from its famed durability and resistance to rot and pests. Ironically, its prized durability threatens the sustainability of the ancient species that yields this precious and beautiful wood, the Bald Cypress.

The fifth oldest living thing on earth is a Bald Cypress discovered in NC that dates to the 6th c. BC. But sadly, very few old growth cypress forests remain. Most of these unique and potentially long-living trees have surrendered to rapacious logging, agriculture, man-made alterations to their native hydrology, or the most recent threat, sea level rise and saltwater intrusion into fragile coastal wetlands and swamps where they have long thrived.

Pulley and his lens meander through the bayou to bring focus to these remarkable and mysterious trees at one of the most wondrous cypress forests left on earth. He raises hope that in protected havens, future generations will not only appreciate the 'wood eternal', but marvel at the beauty and resilience of the 'tree eternal'.

Exhibition Dates: May 4 - June 12, 2022

Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 11 am to 5 pm, Open daily beginning in June

Contact: Van Pulley 202-468-8997
www.vanpulleyphotography.com
info@vanpulleyphotography.com

CALL FOR NEW MEMBERS 2022 : MULTIPLE EXPOSURES GALLERY

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to announce an OPEN CALL to photographers who might be interested in being considered for gallery membership.

Multiple Exposures Gallery represents the work of twelve award-winning photographers recognized for individual excellence in fine art photography. Founded in 1985, Multiple Exposures Gallery is an established and successful fine art photography gallery, widely acclaimed both within the DC metropolitan area and throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.

Please click HERE for more information on the application process and timeline.

IMPORTANT DATES:

May 5                                  Information session at MEG 5-7 pm

May 7                                Information session at MEG 10 am-noon

May 10                                Email intention to apply for membership

June 3 – June 5               Deliver completed portfolio applications to MEG

June 15                               Complete at least three interviews with MEG members

June 28                              Email notification of portfolio review results

June 29-30, July 8-10    Pick up portfolios from MEG

In the galleries: “Night Walks” Tim Hyde - Washington Post Art Review by Mark Jenkins

Photograph from "Night Walks" series by Tim Hyde.

Tim Hyde

The photographs in Tim Hyde’s “Night Walks” were made outside, but they often involve peering into something. That might be a shadowy passageway, partly open doors or a window that reveals a lamp that’s dim and yet the brightest thing within the frame. This Multiple Exposures show compels visitors to look as hard into the gloom as the D.C. photographer does.

Hyde takes inspiration from “Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London,” British novelist Matthew Beaumont’s account of notable writers’ wanderings after dark. Hyde’s statement notes that he began his evening strolls long ago with his grandfather and that now the treks accentuate his vulnerability: “I can’t deny that testing my primal fears is an important part of the nightwalking,” he writes.

So a few of Hyde’s pictures include murky figures, unknown and thus potentially threatening. One depicts a police-line tape, mostly out of focus yet visible enough to bisect the space dynamically. More often, though, the black-heavy photos focus on sources of illumination — in one case red but usually warm yellows. Hyde’s walks may be unusual, but he, like all photographers, is on a quest for special light.

Washington City Paper art critic review of Tim Hyde's solo exhibition "Night Walks"

Tim Hyde Confronts Darkness in Night Walks by LOUIS JACOBSON FEBRUARY 28TH, 2022

The local photographer tests the limits of how we perceive light and dark in his latest solo show, on display at Alexandria’s Multiple Exposures Gallery.

#5 in Night Walks by Tim Hyde

Night Walks at Multiple Exposures Gallery

In his fourth solo exhibition at Alexandria’s Multiple Exposures Gallery, D.C. and Richmond-based photographer Tim Hyde returns to one of his comfort zones: darkness. Hyde isn’t the only artist who has embraced the limitations of nighttime photography—Gregory Crewdson, Todd Hido, and Frank Hallam Day have also thrived in the gloom of night—but Hyde’s most recent series is notable for testing the limits of human perception. There’s simply no way to experience his low-contrast images other than seeing them in person, with your nose pressed right up to the glass. Consider “#5” in Hyde’s series. In person, you can make out a bright slit of orange light that leaks from under a door and slices through a quiet porch. Yet the gash barely shows up in the online version of the photograph, and can’t be seen at all in the printed handout at the gallery. Hyde’s images revel in their stillness, punctuated by the rare rectangle of light from a window, or occasional small figures slinking around, half unseen. Hyde’s final photograph, “#20,” takes the mood to its logical conclusion, offering an image with a figure and a tree that is almost uniformly black. Darkness, Hyde writes, “makes us aware of our limitations, of our relative place in the universe.” Night Walks is on display through March 19 at Multiple Exposures Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 N. Union St. Alexandria. multipleexposuresgallery.com. Free.

“Night Walks,” a New Exhibition of Photography by Tim Hyde

The Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a new photography exhibition by Tim Hyde.  The exhibition runs from February 9 to March 26, 2022.

The exhibition, called “Night Walks” is Hyde’s 4th solo exhibition at the Gallery.   It includes work he has made in the past 8 years exploring a variety of locations around the world.  Hyde explains his purpose and why it is important in the artist statement.

Exhibition Dates: February 9 - March 26, 2022

Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 11 am to 5 pm

"New Year, New Work - 2022" : Multiple Exposures Gallery Group Photography Show

Exhibition Date: December 1, 2021 - January 8, 2022

Image: "Chiharu Shiota" by Matt Leedham

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present our first group exhibition of the new year, "New Work, New Year - 2022," an exhibition of photography by MEG member artists at our gallery in the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA.

In this exhibition, MEG photographers present new work and new directions for the year ahead. The show features two or three pieces from each MEG member artist.

Exhibition Date: December 1, 2021 - January 8, 2022

Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 11 am to 5 pm

Our gallery is open Wednesday to Sunday, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. Please note that the Torpedo Factory requires masks for all visitors regardless of vaccination status.

Art Inquiries and Acquisition:

All photographs in the exhibition are available for purchase at Multiple Exposures Gallery in the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Additional information about photograph image size and framing options can be provided by the individual artists, or you may send an email request directly to Multiple Exposures Gallery at info@multipleexposuresgallery.com.

In the galleries: Sarah Hood Salomon's "Urban Forestry" - Washington Post Art Review by Mark Jenkins

Urban Cathedral ©Sarah Hood Salomon

Sarah Hood Salomon

Trees punctuate, but definitely don’t dominate, the landscapes of “Urban Forestry,” Sarah Hood Salomon’s show at Multiple Exposures Gallery. A small, bare tree is dwarfed by man-made arches in “Urban Cathedral”; a larger one stands amid architectural mayhem in “Demolition”; and an even bigger tree is framed by a huge water or chemical tank in “Borrowed Scenery,” a title taken from a feature of Japanese gardens. There’s also a glum yet seasonally appropriate image: a dead tree, surely a casualty of a Christmas past, dumped upside-down over a metal fence.

Salomon, whose pictures are in deadpan black-and-white, has previously shown photos of dense forests, sometimes clicked with the camera in motion to create a ghostly sense of flux. “Urban Forestry” is less eerie, but sometimes witty. Human intervention pushes trees to the back in “Progress,” whose foreground holds a banner for a banal new development, and in “Shadows and Silhouettes,” where a tree’s crown appears to top the shadow of a trunk on a blank barrier that blocks the actual tree’s trunk from view.

The show includes a 3-D collage, “Former Trees,” in which photos of wooden utility poles are rolled into tubular forms. Debased with posters and signs, the posts nonetheless retain something of their sylvan essence.

Urban Forestry: Digital and Sculptural Photography by Sarah Hood Salomon

Exhibition Date: December 1, 2021 - January 8, 2022

Image: "Former Trees", sculptural photograph © Sarah Hood Salomon

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present “Urban Forestry” a photography and installation art exhibition by MEG member artist Sarah Hood Salomon.  In addition to the gallery exhibition, there will be an installation piece near the 3rd floor elevator (Torpedo Factory Site 3). The piece is titled “Poles”  and features seven 8 foot tall photographic sculptures of former trees (Utility Poles).  The installation will be on view from December 1, 2021 – January 30, 2022. 

The gallery exhibition will be viewed from December 1, 2021 to January 8, 2022.  Artist Reception is Sunday, December 5th from 3 - 5 pm.

Exhibition Date: December 1, 2021 - January 8, 2022

Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 11 am to 5 pm

Opening Reception: Sunday, December 5, 3 - 5 pm

ABOUT THE WORK

Sarah Hood Salomon uses both traditional printing methods and conceptual photographic sculptures to illustrate the challenges faced by urban trees.  “Urban Forestry” explores the complex coexistence of humans and the natural environment, and examines the adaptations that nature is forced to make. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Sarah Hood Salomon is a fine art photographer whose work explores the emotional aspects of the world around her. Her award-winning work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows. She is a photography judge, curator, educator, and author. Sarah holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, and is currently pursuing her Masters in Photography at Maine Media College.