Exhibition - Martine Chaisson Gallery

Exhibition  - Processed Views   Martine Chaisson Gallery 72 Camp Street New Orleans, Louisiana  December 5, 2015 – January  30, 2016 Gallery Talk  December 11th    4:30pm Artists' Walk Through as part of PHOTONOLA programming introducing 44" Fruit Loops Landscape and Enhanced Varieties, Jello-toned silver prints and Sugar Geology sculpture We exhibited this new series at Martine Chaisson Gallery. Enhanced Varieties is a suite of Jell-O®-toned silver gelatin prints  reproducing Carleton Watkins’ 1889 photograph,   Lake George Cling Peaches. Land barons began advertising in the 1880s, encouraging easterners to invest and settle in southern California. Carleton Watkins, renowned for capturing the sublime in nature, was hired to depict the irresistible economic opportunities  of the region. Despite a desert climate heavily dependent on irrigation, southern California was marketed as a land of inexhaustible agricultural potential.  Watkins’ photograph of a crate of peaches illustrates lushness beyond measure  while overlooking the true costs of cultivation where water is scarce.  We all know the success of this characteristically American marketing scheme.  Farmers flocked to this region and with the help of agricultural technology,  grew a new reality – America’s fruit basket. Today we have come to expect limitless plenty and limitless choices. We offer you this selection of Peaches  as an icon of technology improving nature, engineered and marketed to keep  us expecting more.  Sugar Geology: Sedimentary, Igneous and Metamorphic  PHOTONOLA highlights Over the Moon at PHOTONOLA