UNCONSCIOUS METAPHORS
Anne Arden McDonald
Susan kae Grant
Zelda Zinn
Bonny Lhotka
Opening:Friday, March 20th, 2015,5-9 pm
First Friday Receptions: March 20th,
April 3rd and May 1st,2015,5-8pm
300 West 11th Ave #A
Denver, Colorado, 80204
Tel: 303.355.8955
http://www.walkerfineart.com
A Group Exhibition for Month of Photography
Anne Arden McDonald,works from self Portraits" and "Atom Planet" series
Self Portraits: I build installations in the landscape or in abandoned interiors and make private performances for my camera in these spaces.The performances explore my relationship to the world around me and are part ritual,pa11 dance and part daydream. I have many fantasies that I cannot actualize in everyday life--flying is the most insistent of them--and I feel frustrated by the limitations of an earthbound body.My images serve as visual metaphors for struggles we face each day: tensions and balances,the necessity of keeping hope alive despite the obstacles,and the challenge of acknowledging our vulnerability without being crushed.
Susan kae Grant,works from "Night Journey" series
Using the shadow as metaphor,I create images that explore notions associated with dreams and memory and provide pictorial access to the unconscious and unexplainable experiences.These works oftentimes conjure up childhood imaginings, fairy tales and nightmares while portraying a sense of surprise and wonder. Within this work,I seek to create theatricaI worlds that reference the ridiculous,the tragic and the unexpected.
Zelda Zinn, works from "Obsolete" Series
Time can be conceived of as a gradual building up of layers between us and the past. Lacking first-hand knowledge of the subjects, we make assumptions about the people staring out at us in their Sunday best. We recognize the vocabulary of the 19111 century,yet cannot penetrate it. I have overlaid these found portraits with a patina of age and a concocted fate or hint thereof. The gulf between us and them is made visual in the partial obscuring of the sitters.
Bonny Lhotka, works from the Light Drawing" Series
Observing how light reflects on an image when viewed indirectly changes how reality is perceived. The bare branches of winter become like strokes of pencil on paper yet become luminous when transcribed on a new surface. Flattening what is seen in 3D to the 2 dimensional surfaces further distorts reality creating a surreal view of the landscape.
An opening reception will be held on Friday, March 20th, 2015,5-9 pm at the gallery in the Prado building on 11th & Cherokee Streets in Denver's Golden Triangle Museum District. The reception is free and open to the public, and the artists will be in attendance.
The exhibition will continue through Saturday,May 2nd during regular gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday,11a m-5pm, and First Fridays of each month, 6-Spm, or by appointment. For further information call 303-355-8955, or
visit: www.walkerfineart.com.
MOP Panel Discussion
Saturday, March 21, 2015 1pm- 2pm
MOP Panel Discussion: Artists Anne Arden McDonald, Zelda Zinn, and
Bonny Lhotka will discuss their inspiration and underlying narrative of
the works from the current exhibit, “Unconscious Metaphors”. They will
give insight into their creative methods, inspiration and underlying
meaning of their work.
Tuesday March 31 5:30-7pm
Art Conversations:
Bobbi Walker Surrealism
“Unconscious Metaphors”
The overreaching goal of this 20th-century avant-garde movement in
art and culture was to magnify the creative potential of the
unconscious mind. The Surrealists believed that the conscious mind
repressed the power of imagination, weighting it down with taboos. In
surreal photography lighting and exposures are often played with more
than in conventional photography, and this can lead to ghostly forms,
abstract shapes and interesting use of light/shadows. Through free
association, cerebral yet irrational, we can witness the juxtaposition of
the intellectual narrative of reality with a dream world.
Tuesday April 28 5:30-7pm
Art Conversations:
Bonny Lhotka Hacking the Digital Print
Alternative image capture and printmaking processes
Photography has transformed from darkroom to digital, trading
enlargers and chemicals for computers and mice. Along the way we’ve
lost something: the roll of the hand-that ability to create truly one-of-
a-kind photographic and artistic works in the darkroom. Now there
are new processes for the digital era that mimic, replace, and extend
classic photographic techniques, or create entirely new images. These
school-safe, non-toxic processes restore the roll of the hand and allow
students, instructors, photographers, and artists to hack their work to
differentiate themselves and express their creative voice in ways never
before possible.
Walker Fine Art is a member of the Golden Triangle Museum District and the Denver Art Dealers Association. The gallery is located just blocks from the Denver Art Museum in the Prado building on 11th Avenue and Cherokee Street