Currently showing at the Viewpoint Gallery

Rick Murai: Signs of Life

Exhibit Dates: 
Wed, 02/08/2012 - Sat, 03/03/2012
Artist Reception Date: 
Fri, 02/10/2012 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm
2nd Saturday Reception: 
Sat, 02/11/2012 - 5:30pm - 9:30pm

Viewpoint Photographic Art Center proudly presents the work of Richard Murai, one of Northern California’s most accomplished and respected photographers. He has traveled all over the world in search of compelling and spiritually rich pictures.

The images from Bhutan, Laos, and Easter Island in this exhibition are a sampling of work produced over the last six years, and represent an ongoing project of documenting world spiritual sites. As Murai says, “They reflect an unfolding voyage of discovery and creative exploration that examines evidence of intense spiritual devotion and religious fervor, past and present, within unique and distinctive cultures. The act of picture making increases my understanding of the world and the final photograph provides a reaffirmation of the connections between us all.”

Rick will discuss the exhibit during the Member's Reception on Friday, February 10, 5:30-8:30 p.m. He will share his excitement, misgivings and the creative and technical resources that helped produce his latest and diverse body of work. All are welcomed!

Jim Klein: A Matter of Time

Exhibit Dates: 
Wed, 02/08/2012 - Sat, 03/03/2012
Artist Reception Date: 
Fri, 02/10/2012 - 5:30pm - 8:30pm
2nd Saturday Reception: 
Sat, 02/11/2012 - 5:30pm - 9:30pm

Viewpoint member Jim Klein of Lincoln will present work at the Step Up Gallery at Viewpoint in March, 2012. The photographs are the result of travel to Utah, a place universally known for its ancient and dramatic landscapes and also its much newer remains of man’s presence.

Klein cites John Szarkowski, famed photographer, critic and historian, who, in his book The Photographer’s Eye, “included Time as one of the defining aspects of photography as an art medium. But his consideration of time had more to do with how much of time was captured by the camera’s shutter than how time is conveyed by the image.”

The two sets of images in this exhibit, a deserted motel on Highway 70 near Moab and abstracts of rocks from Utah’s National Parks, depict the effects of time, and, in another perspective, timelessness.

 

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