Max Marshall Work from Fabulous Views. “In the series Fabulous Views, I examine through photography how we define nature, and how that idea of nature coexists with human interaction. Traditional depictions of the wild consist of desolate areas, lush trees, waterfalls without a human presence. However, this notion is not the most pervasive in contemporary […]

Ryoichi Kurokawa Work from Octfalls. “Each presentation of young Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa‘s audiovisual installations awes us more than the next. His precise ability to arrange sounds and images makes for a flawless performance from start to finish. We often feel like we’re facing an orchestra playing an expertly arranged and immaculately performed symphonic masterpiece […]

Jim Sanborn Work from The Topographic Projections and Implied Geometries Series. “These images were produced by direct, large format, light projection.  The projector, powered by a mobile generator, was moved from site to site.  All of the pieces were photographed at night using long exposures.  On moonless nights, the landscape was lit with searchlights.  The landforms […]

Notes on a New Nature Curated by Nicholas O’Brien @ 319 Scholes, opens November 10. Images : Chris Collins – Strange Situation Joe Hamilton – Hypergeography Garrett Lynch – Netscapes Sara Ludy – Projection Monitor Kate Steciw – Depth Mapping (The Mountain) “Notes on a New Nature is a physical manifestation of an ongoing research project conducted by […]

Sanna Kannisto Work from Fieldwork. “Breaking away from the conventions of nature photography, which typically presents specimens in isolation, devoid of context, Kannisto’s work addresses the acts of staging and image-making. Her photographs, with their biologically correct titles, show not only the breathtaking beauty of her subjects, but also the tools used to achieve the […]

Christopher Ernst Work from his oeuvre. “This group of images are selections from a body of work that spans the past year and a half. I set my focus on the interiors of businesses and public spaces that featured a specific type of mural wallpaper. My goal was to simply show these surreal interiors exactly […]

  Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhard) Work from Inferno Observatory. “Inferno Observatory is a multi-channel moving image work that explores our complex relationship with natural phenomena. During a fellowship at the Mineral Sciences Laboratory in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, Semiconductor unearthed a 16mm volcano film archive shot by volcanologists […]

Johan Rosenmunthe Work from Transmutations. “What is a transmutation? It’s described as a sudden change from one generation to the next, that is large in comparison with the usual variation of an organism. The theory on the transmutation of species was proposed by Jean-Babtiste Lamarck in 1809. He believed that an innate life force, which […]

  Zachary Davis Work from Tropical Depression. Zachary has an opening Friday @ extra extra in Philadelphia, extra extra shows solid work, check it out. “A low pressure system. The artists, as my friend Andre St. James says, “Keep it on simmer.” I don’t know how much consideration went into titling Tropical Depression, the current group […]

Laura Plageman Work from Response. “In this series I am responding to photographs both as representations and tangible objects. Through physically altering enlarged prints and then re-photographing the results, I create works that oscillate between image and object, photography and sculpture, landscape and still life. While they may appear illusory, the resulting pictures are documents […]