Through the lens of the camera, Cole Rise contemplates his place in the Universe.  Driving across the country in search of awe inspiring landscapes revered for their sheer enormity and history on earth, the methodology behind Rise’s photographic practice requires a perspective that looks within and beyond.  While the subjects of his photographs seem ancient […]

As an inspirational starting point, I have been thinking about the works of 19th Century landscape painters like Albert Bierstadt (see below) or Frederic Edwin Church, which depict the U.S. landscape as grand, transcendent, and even sublime. Painted from and for a European-American point of view, however, those works reflect and project a colonial gaze—one […]

“I suppose that my subjects are, for me, idealized versions of themselves, just as toile de Jouy fabric represented a romanticized interpretation of pastoral ‘reality’ in late-18th century France.” – Tim Hailand   In my work, I allow the material to lead me — it lets me know what it wants (or does not want) […]

Richard Gilles finds inspiration in abandoned and neglected spaces- motor homes left in large fields, gigantic highway infrastructures and blank billboards.   Photographs selected from the series Signs of the Times and Almost Home-Less featured at DNJ Gallery present panoramic photographs of blank billboards littered along double-decker highways and sprawling desert vistas.  The billboards are […]

The air is still.  The snow is like a cocoon, swallowing the land it touches, and outlines the geometry of domestic environments.  In her series Snowbound Lisa M. Robinson presents controlled compositions of outdoor destinations like a basketball court and a trampoline that have no function in the winter months other than to collect the […]

Following the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011, artist Chie Yamayoshi looked to the annual blooming of the Japanese Cherry Blossom as a source of inspiration and renewal.  An incredibly rare and transient event, Yamayoshi layers artificiality with the natural world by replicating the blooming through an 8-channel projection.  Immersed within the installation […]