Past
exhibitionS
James Welling, Jun Shiraoka, Sanna
Kannisto, Hiroyo Kaneko
“Elusive Subjects” – Photography, curated by
Hiroyo Kaneko
Press
Release
Exhibition
Thursday, September 6 - Thursday, October 4 2007
Reception
Thursday, September 6, 2007, 5:30 - 8:00 p.m
Gallery Hours
Tuesday-Saturday, 11-5:30 p.m.
Open until 8:00 p.m. on first Thursday of the month
James Welling, Flowers #12
“ By the resistance matter offers and by
the docility with which we endow it, is at one and the same time
obstacle, instrument and stimulus." -Henri Bergson, "Life
and Consciousness”
Elusive Subjects introduces
four artists who utilize the medium of photography as a direct mediator
between a stimulating environment
and their consciousnesses. The "matter" of the above
passage can be replaced by the methods, equipment and subject matter
of photography; the artist must collaborate with a set of materials
and choices which refracts an original, instinctual experience
in the process of converting to a physical object of art. These
pictures, created through an encounter between the world, the artist,
and photographic tools, reconcile the wonder of looking at photography
with the experience of existing within the world.
James Welling's body of work has moved fluidly through the genres
of abstraction and representation, evading categorization. In this
show, Welling will exhibit works that represent 30 years of experimentation
with the photogram. James Welling was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
He attended the Carnegie-Mellon University, and earned both a B.F.A.
and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts. Welling
lives and works in Los Angeles, additionally serving as a Professor
at the University of California Los Angeles.
Jun Shiraoka's dark and ambiguous black and white photographs of
city landscapes suggest the viewer's enigmatic relationship with
the actual surface of the print. His method entails going about his
daily life accompanied by his 35mm camera, and recording the scenes
and moments which attract him; this process produces the
effect of a translation of his sensory experience of what he sees.
Jun Shiraoka graduated from the Tokyo-Sogo School of Photography,
and has exhibited extensively in New York, Europe, and Japan. He
has worked as a photographer for over 30 years, and lives and works
in Japan.
Sanna Kannisto travels to rain forests around the globe to photograph
local flora and fauna. From these images of wildlife in its natural
habitat, She demonstrates how organic materials and concepts
are manipulated and incorporated into the receptor-culture through
the photographic process. Sanna Kannisto was born in Hameenlinna,
Finland. She received her undergraduate degree in Photography at
the Turku School of Art and Communication, before earning her M.A.
in Photography from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki.
Kannisto lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
www.sannakannisto.com
Hiroyo Kaneko produces large-scale pictures of people within the
weft of their daily lives, as well as 35mm photographs portraying
fragmented landscapes. Her photography draws attention to how the
different ingredients of the material world – light, shadow,
architecture, nature, human life – work together to form a
visual whole. Hiroyo Kaneko was born in Aomori, Japan. She received
her B.A. in French Literature from the Meiji Gakuin University in
Tokyo, and went on to earn an M.F.A. in Photography from the San
Francisco Art Institute. She lives and works in San Francisco.
About the Artist
www.hiroyokaneko.com
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