Walter Cotten
dal 5/2/2004 al 29/2/2004
Segnalato da
5/2/2004
Walter Cotten
Gallery 4016, Los Angeles
Photographic Work. The body of large-scale photographic works being shown at Gallery 4016 is concerned with the decontextualizing and reordering of random objects found around California and in the deserts of the Southwest - primarily on abandoned industrial sites and military ranges. The removal of these seemingly non-utilitarian and sometimes inscrutable fragments from the landscape and their examination in the studio forms the premise for this exhibition.
Photographic Work
About the Art and the Artist
Walter Cotten is an LA-based artist and professor of art at SDSU. The body
of large-scale photographic works being shown at Gallery 4016 is concerned
with the decontextualizing and reordering of random objects found around
California and in the deserts of the Southwest -- primarily on abandoned
industrial sites and military ranges. The removal of these seemingly
non-utilitarian and sometimes inscrutable fragments from the landscape and
their examination in the studio forms the premise for this exhibition.
Explanations of the original function of these artifacts are not offered.
These objects are photographed with a large format pinhole camera and are
presented in a manner which removes any scale references or contextual
information.
Cotten has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and in Europe and has
illustrated essays by several authors, most recently the book "Survival
City," an examination of cold war architecture by Tom Vanderbilt.
Walter Cotton, 'Untitled', color photographs, 40 x 160'
Artist's reception Friday, February 6, 7 - 10 pm
Gallery hours, Tuesday  Saturday, 11am-6pm
Gallery 4016
4016 Santa Monica Blvd. (1 block west of Sunset, in Silver Lake), Los
Angeles, CA 90029
(213) 479-4397, (323) 660-2920, fax (323) 660-2921