February 20 - March 24, 2001

Jeanne Friscia
Jenny Rosenberg
Heather Sparks
Tina Wolfe

Flesh showcases four emerging Bay Area artists who explore the corporeality of the body - both animal and human - in new and startling ways. These artists reflect on the body as architecture, vessel, barrier, and cover, heightening our awareness of places both inside and outside the body’s boundaries.

Jeanne Friscia begins with close-ups of mammalian flesh - meat, fish, and poultry – and works digitally to create lavish kaleidoscopic patterns and disturbing textiles. Jenny Rosenberg molds meat into familiar compositions of childhood, adolescence, and milestone moments in human life - and death. Her work appropriates pre-existing models of photography such as the double take portrait and the baby portrait and takes them to a deeply macabre level. Heather Sparks peers into the textures of skin and hair, transforming these explorations through magnification into visions of the planetary skies. By forging a new cosmology from her own body, she collapses the boundary between interior self and outside world. Tina Wolfe also considers skin as boundary of our psychological space, demarcating the distinction between subject/self and object/other. Wolfe physicalizes this separation by transfering images of skin onto polyurethane "curtains" which hang in the gallery space, creating a liminal zone where public and private realms overlap.

May 16 - June 16, 2001

Ken Gonzales-Day
Eirik Johnson
Simon Norfolk
Deb O’Grady
Matt O’Brien
PIPO
David Taylor
Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie
Joo Kyung Yoon

Re-Imaging the West: A New History revisits the myths and tropes of the American West, reinventing them from a contemporary perspective. Mythologized in numerous forms of cultural production – from the artwork of Frederick Remington and Edward Curtis to the novels of Zane Gray to the glut of B-grade Hollywood Western films to the Marlboro Man - the concept of "the West" continues to occupy a central discursive space in American culture. The mythology of the West is a landscape peopled with stock characters - all white and almost always male - who play out morality tales which speak to the desires of the American dream and the promise that rugged American individualism will conquer all in the face of adversity. It is a mythology of hope and entitlement that, in its familiarity and acceptance, has hidden its dark underside in the dust of the desert floor.

Imaging the West deconstructs and problematizes the characterizations of the American West that form, in many respects, the background of American culture, investigating issues of land appropriation and use, the environmental effects of development, and the histories of the many immigrant populations that made up the Western frontier.

Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts
Spring/Summer 2001, Vol. 28, No. 1
Re-Imaging the West: A New History

August 7 - September 1, 2001

Chloe Atkins
Amy Auerbach
Carol Inez Charney
Seth Dickerman
Deanna Dikeman
Jennifer Foxley
Jona Frank
Karen Gellert
Mary Daniel Hobson
Priya Kambli
Mia Lor Houlberg
Thinh Le
Jessamyn Lovell
Mark Luthringer
Chris McCaw
William Mebane
Sarah Oehl
David Puntel
Jennifer Rosenberg
Robyn Twomey
Anne Veraldi

Vivid honors the work of a diverse group of exciting emerging photographers in recognition of the essential support that Camerawork receives from all of its members.

This exhibition was juried by Kevin Chen, Program Director, Intersection for the Arts; Marnie Gillett, Executive Director, SF Camerawork; Michael Shapiro, Owner, Shapiro Gallery; Rose Shoshana, Owner, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica.

October 23 - November 24, 2001

Jo Babcock
Lukas Felzmann
Catherine Gfeller
Orit Raff
Abelardo Morell
Scott Davis

Not Landscape: Fragments and Metaphors explores the traditional subject of landscape, framed in conceptual terms rather than as a literal recording of place. Some of the images are constructed views, others are imagined, made from unlikely subjects, or redefined as pure abstractions. In this expanded view of landscape, the photographs presented here invite new thinking about the subject of landscape photography and our relationship to the natural world.

Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts
Fall/Winter 2001, Vol. 28, No. 2
Not Landscape