UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Picturing Place: Photographs by Gregory Schaffer and Mike Williams
Picturing Place: Photographs by Gregory Schaffer and Mike Williams
The Art Museum
June 6-September 8
The Museums of Los Gatos presents Picturing Place: Photographs by Gregory Schaffer and Mike Williams, June 6 – September 8, 2013.
Picturing Place is an exhibition that draws on two contemporary photographers’ explorations of their environments. In his landscapes, Seattle photographer Gregory Schaffer explores where people, commerce, economy and natural environment intersect and ultimately define their surroundings. Mike Williams focuses on the intersection of image and text in making observations about the world around him. What emerges is often the humorous and absurd, the tragic and surreal elements of human life. Through sophisticated and intuitive observations about their immediate environments, both photographers use their artwork to suggest shared connections to something much larger.
Schaffer and Williams have studied with William Jenkins, curator of the seminal exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, which debuted at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in January, 1975. New Topographics transformed landscape photography in the United States and globally.
Picturing Place also incorporates a gallery for community photographs of the greater Los Gatos area. Picturing Los Gatos will be a rotating selection of images contributed by the community throughout the exhibition period. This growing collection of images can be added to and viewed in The Art Museum and online: Picturing Los Gatos on Flickr.
Picturing Place will close by celebrating a photographic book publication. Brian Taylor, artist and professor at San Jose State University School of Art & Design and Gregory Schaffer will both contribute images taken in and around Los Gatos that artistically describe our Place.
Foto Fun: A BIRD’S EYE TO A WORM’S EYE VIEW (AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN) is a week-long summer photo camp for children ages 6-10. Kids engage in hands-on learning with expert instructors using digital cameras, including smartphones and iPads.
art:inFOCUS Lecture Series
“Where Is Photography Now?” with Brian Taylor
The Art Museum
May 16, 2013
6pm – Reception
7pm – Lecture
Opening Reception
The Art Museum
June 20, 2013
6-9pm
Foto Fun: A BIRD’S EYE TO A WORM’S EYE VIEW (AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN) Kids’ Summer Photo Camp
The Art Museum
July 15-19
9am-noon
Family Art Day
The Art Museum
July 28, 2013
12-3pm
Our Family Art Day will feature a photography project for all ages.
Turn something ordinary into something extraordinary
Closing Reception featuring artist publication with photographs by Gregory Schaffer and Brian Taylor
The Art Museum
September 8, 2013
6-8pm
