Dana Hart-Stone
As a child, Dana Hart-Stone wandered the vast, history-rich countryside of Eastern Montana. His discoveries of deserted homesteads provided fragmentary narratives of the grueling lives of early settlers and ignited curiosity and wonderment for the lost histories of the American experience. These early discoveries continue to captivate Hart-Stone’s mind and fuel his work today. Vintage, vernacular photographs have replaced his childhood wanderings, allowing him to digitally stitch together the breadth and depth of our country’s Western development. Hart-Stone’s work provides the viewer with an unadulterated lens through which to witness underlying stories of race, gender, sexual identity, socioeconomic positioning, and class. In this way, Hart-Stone gives a fresh voice to generations of formerly known Americans who built this country one garden at a time, one wheat field at a time, and one 4th of July parade at a time.
Jim Wesphalen
Vermont-based photographer Jim Westphalen has always had an affinity for the built landscape, its features, and patterns reflecting human occupation within the natural surroundings. His current body of work, Vanish, is an ongoing narrative that speaks to the decay of iconic structures across rural America. Inspired by such painters as Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper, and A. Hale Johnson, Jim’s photographs open like windows to a world that is rapidly disappearing before our eyes.
Ellie Davies
Ellie Davies has been working in UK forests since 2007, making work that explores the complex interrelationship between the landscape and the individual. In her series titled Stars, mature and ancient forest landscapes are interposed with images of the Milky Way captured by the Hubble Telescope. Each image links forest landscapes with the intangible and unknown universe, creating a juxtaposition that reflects her personal experiences of the forest; its physicality and tactility set against a profound and fundamental otherness, an alienation that separates us from a truly immersive relationship with the natural world.
Captions:
Dear Friend Lola
by Dana Hart-Stone
UV-cured acrylic ink on canvas
75” diameter
install of Dana Hart-Stone Dear Friend Lola
1868 Schoolhouse
by Jim Westphalen
archival pigment photograph
42” x 48”
Stars 5
by Ellie Davies
chromogenic print
42” x 63”
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