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Abend Gallery presents Dynamic Mapping

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Exhibit
Saturday, March 28th, 2015
Starts at 10:00 AM
Abend Gallery
2260 E. Colfax
Denver, CO 80206

March 20 – April 17

Opening Reception: Friday, March 20, 6-9 pm 

Participating artists: Evan Anderman, Libby Barbee, J. Frede, Ashlae Shepler + Leah Gose

Abend Gallery is proud to present Dynamic Mapping, a landscape photography exhibition guest-curated by revered local photographer and Director of Month of Photography, Mark Sink, opening March 20. This exhibition represents a lot of firsts for Abend Gallery; this will be our first year participating in the Month of Photography, a biennial celebration of fine art photography with hundreds of collaborative public events throughout Denver and the region in March and April; this will be Mark Sink’s first guest curation with the gallery; and, this exhibition will be our first with a focus on photography.

Works by an exciting group of photographers, some local and some out-of-state, will be featured, including Evan Anderman, Libby Barbee, J. Frede, and collaborative works by Ashlae Shepler and Leah Gose.

The concept of the show was initially built around the works of Evan Anderman and Libby Barbee. At first it seemed like a disparate pairing, but as I talked to the artists I started to find common threads in their work. From the interaction of these works came the concepts of modified land and alternative methods for defining space.

Evan will be showing a selection from his series Invaded Land, consisting of aerial photos of the military training grounds at Pinyon Canyon and the marks that these exercises leave on the land, which only become visible from an aerial perspective.

Libby’s work consists of collages from her Reimagining Bierstadt: Rocky Mountains. Her bold deconstructions of typical landscape elements form disjointed, chaotic, and fantastical landscapes that appear both familiar and alien at the same time. 

Shepler and Gose are presenting works from their series Windowless Wanderings that looks at the effect of distance on collaborative work. They state that the series is meant to “explore the feeling of isolation and paranoia that result from feeling separated from familiar surroundings.”

J. Frede presents a series of works called Fiction Landscapes, based on reconfigured found photographs of landscapes in an attempt to examine memory tied to physical space and media. He says that these works are “made with banal photographs of landscapes I purchase at flea markets then arranging them into new landscapes by aligning in such a way that the scene continues from photo to photo spanning wide geographic locations and decades.”

Thus, the exhibition looks at modifying/modified land in multiple ways: the human presence on the land itself, manipulation of media to create new landscapes, and the way that our subjective perceptions and feelings can transform the land.

Abend Gallery Fine Art was established in 1990 and offers an extensive collection of fine art from fresh, contemporary works to traditional, representational paintings and sculpture by national and internationally recognized professional artists.

Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat, 10 - 6pm; Sun: 11am – 4pm. 

Cost
Free
More Information

www.abendgallery.com
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