Hosfelt Gallery Presents
Near Planet
Art by Michael Light
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- Event has passed (Sat Jan 27, 2007 - Sat Mar 10, 2007)
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**Opening reception: 3-5 pm, Saturday, January 27th."Michael Light might be capable of making you see the moon (and nuclear suns) anew. When he turns his vision to the landscapes of the American West, as he does in his newest collection of photos, the results can be amazing and more than a little unsettling. Light's "Near Planet" is centered around a handful of large handmade artist's books consisting of aerial photographs. The world's largest human-made hole and Compton are just two areas overseen, with each of Light's books devoted to one particular region and a single flight. The intense surveys of the scarred American landscape in James Benning's films come to mind, but in terms of panoramic color, an even closer filmic corollary might be Olivo Barbieri's uncanny helicopter visions of cities, which make cars and buildings seem like toys."
- Huston, from the San Francisco Bay Guardian
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- http://www.hosfeltgallery.com
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- 415.495.5454
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