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Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
© Frank Gohlke. Reservoir #1, the Sudbury River, Framingham, Massachusetts.
Dye coupler print. Collection of the artist. 1991
Unforeseeable issues in the gallery have delayed the opening of the Center for Creative Photography’s exhibition: Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke. The Center regrets having to postpone the related artist’s reception and discussion originally scheduled for Friday, September 5 at 5 p.m.
Following is an updated schedule of exhibition-related programs. Please note the new date for the Artist’s Reception and Discussion and thank you for your patience during this inconvenience.
About the Exhibition: Frank Gohlke (b. 1942) is one of America’s leading landscape photographers. For more than thirty years, he has taken photographs that depict how Americans build their lives within a natural world that rarely matches the pastoral ideal. Whether photographing vast spaces of the Midwest punctuated by grain elevators, the close confines of the Sudbury River in Massachusetts, or the aftermath of the 1980 volcanic eruption of Washington State’s Mount St. Helens, Gohlke draws attention to the boundaries between humanity and nature.
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke is organized by the Amon Carter Museum and is made possible in part by generous support from the Perkins-Prothro Foundation, Exelon Power, and the Vin and Caren Prothro Foundation.
Lecture
Ben Lifson, noted artist, critic, historian, teacher, and writer, will discuss realism and vision in Frank Gohlke&'s photography and, in Flannery O'Connor's words, "The mystery of our condition on this planet."
Gallery Walk
Artist’s Reception and Discussion
A reception honoring Frank Gohlke will be followed by a discussion with Gohlke and Britt Salvesen, Director and Chief Curator.
Center for Creative Photography Lecture: Wednesday, October 1, 5:30pm
France Scully Osterman is one of the leading artists working in wet-plate collodion, salted paper and albumen printing today. She resides in Rochester, NY and is a guest scholar at the George Eastman House. Osterman will present a lecture at the Center about historic photographic processes and how she and other contemporary artists use process artifacts as tools for expression in their work. http://www.collodion.org/bio.html This program is being held in collaboration with an exhibition of Osterman’s work at the Tilt Gallery in Phoenix: http://tiltgallery.com/exhibitions.htm.