Living Arrangements: Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla to open group exhibition
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Living Arrangements: Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla to open group exhibition
Gene Kennedy, South from Santa Margarita Parkway, Mission Viejo, Orange County, CA, 1991. Gelatin silver print, 11 x 20 inches.



LA JOLLA, CA.- Joseph Bellows Gallery announces its upcoming exhibition, Living Arrangements. This group exhibition will present the work of Reenie Barrow, Bevan Davies, Scott B. Davis, Douglas R. Gilbert, Charles Johnstone, Gene Kennedy, Michael Mulno, and Phel Steinmetz. An opening reception for the artists will be held on Saturday, January 10, 2015, from 6-8pm. The exhibition will continue through March 7, 2015. The photographs included in the exhibition survey the domestic landscape, portraying residential architecture and environments. They depict how and where we live, revealing to the viewer the form, content, and the complexities of the places we call home.

The exhibition presents emerging and established artists, championing the gallery’s mission to bring strong work to a contemporary audience and create a dialog across time through both contemporary and vintage photography. Many of the artists included in the exhibition have been creating exceptional bodies of work since the 1970’s, but have not seen the attention their work deserves. Joseph Bellows Gallery is committed to bring this work to light and promote it through exhibition and collaborative publication.

Living Arrangements brings together the work of eight photographers, who, in varying decades have turned their cameras on domestic sites, picturing developing and existing communities, track homes, neighborhoods, and multi-unit dwellings.
Reenie Barrow’s photographs explore the homes that populate the residential neighborhoods in the San Diego region of Southern California. Taken in 1970’s and utilizing a frontal curbside view, Barrow shows, through her square format camera, a balance of the individual home within the surrounding neighborhood; her photographs offer clues of existence: trimmed bushes and tree lines, trash cans, and antennas occupy yards, providing visual balance to the form of the house’s structure while suggesting inhabitance.

Bevan Davies’ photographs from Los Angeles in the mid 1970’s embody a topographical inventory of small apartment buildings and dingbat architecture. His straightforward views allow a subtle study of building ornamentation and structure. Also, included in the exhibition are Davies’ large-scale corner views of residential streets in the LA area. These scenes take the viewer down multiple streets from one vantage point, depicting the organization of homes at various intersections.

The contemporary suburban landscape is described under an artificial glow of surrounding street and house lights in Scott B. Davis quiet views that transform familiar neighborhood scenes into nocturnal discoveries, rendered in the richly gradient hue of the platinum/pallidum print.

The development, construction, and growing stages of Midwest suburban neighborhoods of the 1970’s are recorded by Douglas R. Gilbert through formally considered views that show the natural landscape transforming into planned subdivision. Gilbert’s observations reveal subtle signs, such as blankets hanging in windows and newly drawn fence lines, that people are now part of the landscape.

Charles Johnstone’s small scale photographs from the early 2000’s depict with a resplendent glow the uniform blank white surfaces of the mobile homes that outline the private streets of the coastal community of Briny Breezes, a mobile home park that is also an incorporated town, located between the Atlantic Ocean and the intra-coastal waterway in Palm Beach County, Florida. Remarkably devoid of embellishment, each residence signals a code of communal regulations regarding outward structural appearances.

In the early 1980’s Gene Kennedy’s large-format panoramic frame described numerous counties in California from an elevated viewpoint; densely organizing a landscape in transition and its result - the track home community. His observations are informed with lucidity and beauty and with regard to the time and place his pictures depict.

In Michael Mulno’s recent pictures, the common, unadorned multi-family units that populate the neighborhoods of central San Diego are described. The units are drawn with an overall clarity and neutrality, defining their structure while suggesting the greater physical and social landscape they reside within.

Through Phel Steinmetz’s multi-panel photographs we find an exploration of the landscape of Southern California and its rapid development in the 1970’s and 80’s. His photographic pieces describe and question why culture creates a divide between the natural and the constructed environment.

To request further information or hi resolution images please contact Joseph Bellows Gallery at info@josephbellows.com. Established in 1998, Joseph Bellows Gallery features rotating exhibitions of both historic and contemporary photography, with a special interest in American work from the 20th Century.










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