WaterWorks

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Work by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective has been chosen for an exhibition entitled “WaterWorks,” to be shown at ARC Studios and Gallery.

Curator for the show is Ed Carey, Director and Owner of Gallery 291.
Discussing the theme for the exhibit Carey said, “Few subjects in art history have been portrayed more frequently than water. From primitive cave drawings to the water wall in Bill Viola’s ‘Ocean Without a Shore’ video, water has captured the artistic imagination.

“WaterWorks” represents water in multiple forms (fountains, oceans, rivers, puddles, pools) and many moods (from abstract, elusive, moody, mesmerizing, and transcendent, to literal and quotidian.)

It is not difficult to understand the artist’s attraction. Water is beautiful, awe-inspiring, universal, mesmerizing, mutable, life giving and life sustaining, a source of recreation and pleasure, a luxury and a scarce and sacred resource. Our affinity to water is visual, sensual and tactile. And it is also essential. Our blood is chemically similar to seawater. Our bodies, like the surface of the planet, are both about sixty-five percent water. And our life form originated in water. We wonder how the meanings we find in these water images resonate with our eternal longing to return to our original habitat – the sea.”

Ed Carey will give a talk on the exhibition “WaterWorks,” on July 28, 3 to 5 PM.

Artists selected for the exhibit:
Jack Androvich
Henry Bowles
Adrienne Defendi
Anthony Delgado
Malcolm Easton
Linda Fitch
Ingeborg Gerdes
Steve Goldband
Ralf Hillebrand
Irene Imfeld
Ellen Konar
Barbara Kyne
Eric Larson
Thomas Lavin
Erin Malone
John Martin
Charlotte Niel
Heather Polley
Ari Salomon
Kirk Thompson
Gary Weiner

To see examples of the photographers’ work, please visit the Member’s Gallery: http://www.bapc.info/members-gallery/

Reception and Curator talk are free.

See More Work by Selected BAPC Members off the Main Gallery in our “MarketPlace” display. Open Saturday night July 7, 7 to 9 PM during the opening reception and Saturday July 28, 12 to 5 PM.

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http://www.bapc.info/waterworks

BAPC is a non-profit organization founded in 1999 to support and encourage emerging fine-art photographers by creating a community of artists working together and helping one another. By pooling resources, the organization provides members with professional and artistic development through artist talks, portfolio reviews, critiques, workshops, presentations, aesthetic salons and exhibition opportunities.

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