Near & Far Exhibition at Justus Fine Art Gallery
- Ongoing: until Saturday, November 26, 2011
- Wednesday: 10:00am
- Thursday: 10:00am
- Friday: 10:00am
- Saturday: 10:00am
- Where: Justus Fine Art Gallery, Hot Springs
- Cost: Not available
- Age limit: Not available
Near & Far Exhibition at Justus Fine Art Gallery
(Hot Springs, AR--) Justus Fine Art Gallery will feature photography by Don House and Cindy Momchilov, along with work by Steve Griffith, Donnie Copeland, Rene Hein, Robyn Horn, and Dolores Justus during the exhibition scheduled for November 4 - 26, 2012. The exhibition title, Near & Far, suggests the range of subject matter and the ability of art to create connections that transcend place.
Don House has been photographing the people and landscape of Arkansas for over twenty-five years. His work has been featured in publications as diverse as Boys Life and The Wall Street Journal, as well as a host of national exhibitions. He is the author of two books of photography - Buffalo Creek Chronicles and Not A Good Sign. He is currently part of the Fayetteville Underground - a non-profit association of artists who work and exhibit in a large studio/gallery setting in a former downtown bank building in Fayetteville.
Don House states of the work to be included in the exhibition:
These images are made by photographing with a no-longer available polaroid film that remains soft after it exits the camera. I use blunt hand tools to actually hand-alter the emulsion of the film, then rephotograph the small polaroids and enlarge. They are not computer manipulated in any way. This series of seven photographs is part of a collection of images made to capture the essence of what makes Fayetteville unique.
Cindy Momchilov’s interest in photography began in high school where she learned that carrying a camera got her backstage, on the team bus, at the 50 yard line and, most importantly, out of the classroom. While pursuing pre-med studies at Ohio State University, she took her first class in fine art photography and was hooked. She transferred to The Rochester Institute of Technology where she a degree in bio-medical photography. She spent four years as Senior Medical Photographer at UAMS. Since 1979, Momchilov has operated Camera Work, Inc., a commercial photography studio in Little Rock. She particularly enjoys photographing people and artwork, along with serving a full range of commercial clients. Her photographs have been featured in numerous publications, advertising applications, and fine art exhibitions and collections.
In 1984, Cindy Momchilov began using a cheap plastic Diana camera to make photographs for her own amusement. The artist states:
The work I produce as a commercial photographer is necessarily precise. I use digital cameras capable of producing very high resolution images. I carry lighting equipment and tell people what to do to make the photograph happen. These photographs result from discussions with clients and must fill a specific need. Often, little is left to chance. The Diana camera is all about chance. When I use my Diana cameras no one runs away from me. I look harmless, as well as clueless. It’s easy to make multiple exposures on the same piece of film and the lens has every possible every optical defect. The shutter sounds cheap when it fires and the mechanism for winding the film makes it sound like a toy. When I visit a place, especially if it’s my first visit, impressions hit me in rapid succession like a movie but always without sound. The overlapping exposures I make on the Diana’s roll film represent the place for me in a way that a single frame, no matter how descriptive, cannot. In the same way that projecting a movie on a screen or watching a video on a television relies on persistence of vision, my impressions of a time or a place overlap each other. The images are not discrete.
Additional work by Michael Ashley, Kari Albright, Hugh Dunnahoe, Mike Elsass, Tony Saladino, Rebecca Thompson, and others will be available. The opening reception for the exhibit will be held from 5-9 p.m. on Friday, November 4, as part of the monthly Gallery Walk in downtown Hot Springs. Justus Fine Art is located at 827 A Central Avenue. Hours are Wednesday - Saturday from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., or by appointment. For more information, call 501-321-2335.
This event was posted Oct. 30, 2011 and last updated Nov. 1, 2011
