Altered States

Tue, Sep 6

"Altered States"
JEREMY KIDD, TREVOR TRAYNOR, NATE PAGAL

"Altered States" is a three-person exhibition featuring recent
photographs by New York-based Trevor Traynor, photo-based works by
Los Angeles-based Jeremy Kidd and video by San Francisco's Nate
Pagal. The exhibition runs from September 8 - October 1, 2005 with a
reception for the artists on Thursday, September 8 from 6:00PM-9:00PM.

Jeremy Kidd's recent works incorporate hundreds of time-lapse
photographs of urban vistas and panoramic landscapes. The resulting
images become a fictionalized reality and what the artist describes
as "objective fantasies." To further resolve the image, the artist
clones and replicates architecture and nature while employing other
devices and lighting effects to arrive at a continuously toned "meta-
photograph." These altered visions offer warped interpretations of
familiar places which are at once real and imagined. Kidd's works are
fueled by a personal observation of a place over many hours and often
days. As much as his works are about seeing and the conventions of
photography, Kidd's hand-manipulated digital "stitching" process
brings a tactile dimension and a filmic editing quality to bear. The
final recombinant images exist as amalgamations of space which embody
a multiplicity of time. By using digital imaging software, the works
exist not only as a very personalized vision but a technologically
mediated experience as well.

Trevor Traynor's photographs probe those mysterious thresholds where
our normal sense of time and space is brought into question. Subway
stations, escalators and airport terminals are explored using only
traditional photographic means. Traynor's precise compositions will
often include trains, people and machines caught in ghostly motion.
The artist surrenders the still object, instead capturing the object
as a form described purely by light and time. These "lightforms" take
on an almost supernatural quality, charging their architectural
surroundings and presenting a heightened awareness of these places
which approaches the sublime. The photos reveal the increasing speed
of life around us and penetrate the "altered state" of our existence
whilst there. Traynor's art provides a fascinating study of these
intermediary zones, corridors, and portals, which, in the post - 9/11
world, have become even more significant architectural "places."

In like manner, Nate Pagel's current body of work involves using
video and sound to explore the processes of connection and movement
within the public transit systems of Paris, London and Tokyo. For
this exhibition, Pagal will screen a new 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound
version of UNDERGROUND, shot entirely in London which has become much
more relevant following the recent tragedies in London. His work has
screened at festivals in six countries.

Curated by William Linn from blasthaus.

Venue:

Rx Gallery
132 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA
415-474-7973
www.rxgallery.com

One block from Powell BART

Additional Info:

415-756-8890
www.rxgallery.com