Current
SHARED SPACES
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION
STEPHEN WICKS
October 4 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 11th, 5-8pm
Artist’s Talk: Thursday, October 17th, 7 pm
Artist’s Meet & Greet: Sunday, Oct. 27th, 2 - 5pm
A mixed media exhibition / installation composed of over eighty photographs including early black & white and recent color images along with three continuously looping video pieces. Each element in the installation presents wide-ranging views of places where the natural landscape, material culture and the built environment merge.
… heading off across America to make these photographs I chose the open road. I deliberately avoided visiting familiar iconic destinations. Instead, I travelled with an eye toward discovering places along the way where the built environment merged with the natural landscape …
The photographs and video pieces in this SHARED SPACES exhibition are works selected from The NATURE/CULTURE Project - my ten year [ 2008-2018] survey of American spaces and places found along the roadside across all regions of the country.
Although my NATURE/CULTURE Project photographs are of places void of people, I believe a human trace is visible in each picture and, with this in mind, I see my images of these spaces as social landscapes.
It is precisely the absence of people along with a sense of their presence, as seen in the marks, changes and artifacts left in the environment, I find most fascinating.
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION
STEPHEN WICKS
October 4 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 11th, 5-8pm
Artist’s Talk: Thursday, October 17th, 7 pm
Artist’s Meet & Greet: Sunday, Oct. 27th, 2 - 5pm
A mixed media exhibition / installation composed of over eighty photographs including early black & white and recent color images along with three continuously looping video pieces. Each element in the installation presents wide-ranging views of places where the natural landscape, material culture and the built environment merge.
… heading off across America to make these photographs I chose the open road. I deliberately avoided visiting familiar iconic destinations. Instead, I travelled with an eye toward discovering places along the way where the built environment merged with the natural landscape …
The photographs and video pieces in this SHARED SPACES exhibition are works selected from The NATURE/CULTURE Project - my ten year [ 2008-2018] survey of American spaces and places found along the roadside across all regions of the country.
Although my NATURE/CULTURE Project photographs are of places void of people, I believe a human trace is visible in each picture and, with this in mind, I see my images of these spaces as social landscapes.
It is precisely the absence of people along with a sense of their presence, as seen in the marks, changes and artifacts left in the environment, I find most fascinating.
Early Work
Lake Powell, UTAH
The exhibition includes a small collection of early black and white photographs I discovered while revisiting my 30 year archive of photo documentary essays. These “found” images became the inspiration for my NATURE/CULTURE Project, a ten year photographic survey of roadside culture across all regions of America captured between 2008 and 2018.
Lake Powell, UTAH
The exhibition includes a small collection of early black and white photographs I discovered while revisiting my 30 year archive of photo documentary essays. These “found” images became the inspiration for my NATURE/CULTURE Project, a ten year photographic survey of roadside culture across all regions of America captured between 2008 and 2018.
Video Montage/Soundscape
Screenshot from the montage/soundscape NO PLACE in PARTICULAR
NO PLACE in PARTICULAR - at the core of the installation is a large screen television presenting a montage of still images along with a soundscape creating an ambient audio atmosphere adding a sense of place and activity to the gallery space. Thus video montage/soundscape is meant to be a meditation on the sensation of mobility evoking an elastic sense time and space which, to me, seems synonymous with traveling the open road.
As one screen image slowly dissolves into the next a metamorphosis of shared elements creates a series of compelling yet impossible landscapes. They are mediated transient spaces seen only on the screen and perceived by the minds-eye of the viewer … presenting a “geography of nowhere”.
Stephen Wicks website: www.wicksmedia.com
Screenshot from the montage/soundscape NO PLACE in PARTICULAR
NO PLACE in PARTICULAR - at the core of the installation is a large screen television presenting a montage of still images along with a soundscape creating an ambient audio atmosphere adding a sense of place and activity to the gallery space. Thus video montage/soundscape is meant to be a meditation on the sensation of mobility evoking an elastic sense time and space which, to me, seems synonymous with traveling the open road.
As one screen image slowly dissolves into the next a metamorphosis of shared elements creates a series of compelling yet impossible landscapes. They are mediated transient spaces seen only on the screen and perceived by the minds-eye of the viewer … presenting a “geography of nowhere”.
Stephen Wicks website: www.wicksmedia.com