The Photographs of Katherine Westerhout
In San Francisco this Thursday? Come on by and check out an encore presentation of Katherine Westerhout's Detroit.
Thursday, 3 April, 6 - 9 pm
3A GALLERY
101 South Park
San Francisco, CA 94107
As a great American city bows under the impossible weight of time, Katherine Westerhout freezes the passing of Detroit and invites us to really look, and to consider the physical manifestions of the temporal world. Within the empty spaces of abandoned buildings, light and color fall across the architecture as it slowly deteriorates to reveal structure and to create new implications of space. These mysterious spaces, although devoid of human presence, are full of possibility.
Like Piranesi's etchings captured the beauty of Roman Architecture through its ruins, so do Westerhout's photographs present our own modern ruins. Her lens transforms these crumbling Midwestern interiors -often filled with reflective puddles of stagnant water and carved through by beams of sunlight -into picturesque landscapes of rich surfaces that are almost baroque with the excessive ornamentation of decay. The Ruin has been a part of the western visual art canon since the 17th century, and Katherine Westerhout's large-scale images meaningfully continue this dialogue into our own time.
Previous photography posts:
· Camera Obscura [Life Without Buildings]
· Artful Project Documentation [Life Without Buildings]
[Images via Katherine Westerhout's website]
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SPACE METS ART / ART MEETS SPACE - This sexy monograph published by Victionary presents a series of striking exhibition spaces that demonstrate the intersection of graphics, multimedia, structure and architecture.
VERB: NATURES - Nature meets technology in this, Actar's latest Verb Boogazine. Presenting some of the most striking projects to grace the pages of the series, the work presented in Natures attempts to give us a new way to understand of our environment.
BEST AMERICAN COMICS 2007 - Guest Editor Chris Ware assembles an absolutely fantastic collection of the year's best in comics and introduced me to several new cartoonists, including the breathtaking work of Anders Nilsen.
2G BOOKS: LACATON VASSAL - I can't say enough good things about Lacaton Vassal and this catalog seems to be the only collection of their work. Great photos, great interviews, and some very beautiful, very original work
Comments on "The Photographs of Katherine Westerhout"
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LoftNinja said ... (5:53 PM) :
post a commentreally nice stuff here. It makes me think of shot by Justin Farrow...a real estate broker/photographer that gets into all sorts of cool spots...
check him out
http://justinyc.typepad.com/photos/space/