« Texas Rolls Ever Backward | Main | Symbiot: Striking Back in Cyberspace » David Verba Exhibition F8 Fine Art Gallery in Austin has an exhibition starting today that includes photographs by my friend David Verba. The exhibit opens today, with a reception tonight (6-9pm). Other artists: Nathan Jensen, Jennifer Balkan, and Richard D. Griffin. [Link] For David Verba, photography is often a double-edged sword, documenting the passing or the end of a moment as much as the moment itself. David documents abandoned sites in the American West, finding that the subjects he is attracted to, reflect the same contradictory quality. The locations David chooses to photograph are situated off of rural highways where the scarcity of people leaves the sites and their structures largely unobserved and untouched. Abandoned buildings, forsaken furniture, derelict automobiles, separately and together form tableaus of objects and places whose time has passed. The absence of spectators, however-the existence outside the normal flow of human events-has also lent these scenes a curious quality. Although their time has come and gone, there is a distinct impression of timelessness. jon posted this at 11:03 AM |
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