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We were here
Laura Dutton & Anna Kasko
April 8 - May 15, 2021

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We were here is an exhibition of work by Laura Dutton and Anna Kasko which, together, describe how photographs reveal our collective desire to get near to something or someone.
 
Dutton’s photographs are abstracted, candid portraits of tourists visiting the Grand Canyon. The people, standing in the distant landscape, were unaware that scant details of their likeness were being captured by the artist’s camera. Later, Dutton enlarged the iconic landscape to pluck out the tiny portions of portrait information. Through a process of printing, scanning, and reprinting, the results reveal ink dot patterns that are reminiscent of pointillism, as though these people could have been stolen from the background of a Seurat painting, where they had been forgotten.
 
While Dutton finds her subjects buried deep within her images, Kasko’s work involves a discarded personal archive from a time when vernacular family photography became widely accessible. The artist’s process of superimposing multiple slides results in a blurring of the subject’s identity and permits the audience to make the photographs their own. A familiarity is borne of common-place visual cues – a picnic, a barbeque, an outboard motor-boat ride. The images become both familiar and anonymous, linking then to now by way of our lasting tendency to record the mundane.
 
Together, these series reveal the voyeurism of both image-taker and audience­ – a dialectical give-and-take that has become a regular part of contemporary life. This process explores our individuality and binds us as a community of seers.


Past Exhibitions
In Over Our Heads
Group Exhibition

​February 21th - March 22nd, 2020
Theatre of Painting
Hank Bull

​November 9th - December 14th, 2019
Continuing Dialogues
Glenn Lewis, Keith Donovan, Michael Morris & Vincent Trasov

​September 28th - October 26th, 2019
Scenery 
Maya Gulin

​July 12th - 22nd, 2019
Shadow Architecture 
Michael Love

​April 11th - May 4th, 2019
Vessels are Never Empty
Dina González Mascaró

March 9th - April 6th, 2019
Alleyways
​Glenn Lewis

February 1st, 2019
Being
Kitty Blandy

November 17th - December 15th, 2018
Ohne Worte (without words)
Vincent Trasov

May 14th - June 17th, 2018
Pool
Ed Spence

April 12th - May 5th, 2018
Borrowed Landscape
Glenn Lewis 

March 1st - 31st, 2018
Grapes
Maggie Boyd

February 2nd - 23rd, 2018
Sponge Setting
Tess Rafael

December 2nd, 2017 - January 6th, 2018
Mistressworks
Angela Grossman 

September 23rd - October 21st, 2017
Whispermarks
Jonathan Syme
May 12th - June 24th, 2017
The Moth and The Flame
Michael Batty and Chris Shier

February 17th - March 18th, 2017
Handmade Handup Handdown not Handout
Glenn Lewis

January 21st - February 11th, 2017
A Beast Salient
Group Show

November 25th - December 17th, 2016
Landscape is a Witness
Todd Tedeschini

October 14th - November 12th, 2016
Between Ideology and Ruin
Mike Love

September 10th - October 8th, 2016
TBH
Group Show

July 1st - August 13th, 2016
An Affection For Life
Katie Huisman 

May 19th - June 11th, 2016
Soft Error
Ed Spence 

April 14th - May 14, 2016
Spectres Of Desire
Karen Zalamea

March 17th - April 9th, 2016
Form Being Foreseen
Glenn Lewis

February 19th - March 6th, 2016

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