Rebekah Jacob Gallery is presenting The Imagist through Dec. 31, 2008. The display features photographic and video works from diverse genres that relate to the South. In provocative color or richly toned black-and-white applications, each artist has a poignant, visual story to tell of "their South" through studio portraiture, landscape photography and urban street photography. And in some cases, moving pictures.The exhibition will gather significant examples of Southern artists, photographers and filmmakers.
COLOR
Artist Jack Spencer traveled the Carolinas in 2007 to capture the mysticism and grandeur of the raw landscape. Most of his images look like mythological fairylands, with sweeping trees weighted by clusters of moss.
Often, a strong source of sunlight is central to the composition.
Karekin Goekjian also has explored the Carolinas and beyond, focusing on Southern ruins at night. Using the moonlight as his only source of light, his repertoire includes architectural portraits of empty places, such as Old Sheldon and stone churches at Georgetown. Local photographer Kevin Hoth stays close to Charleston's urban sites to photograph industrial buildings and miscellaneous objects in variations of blue.
BLACK AND WHITE
Local artist Julia Cart exhibits images of the barren, untouched Lowcountry in a black-and-white format. Using negatives from a large format box camera, she prints most of her work using antique processes, primarily silver gelatin.
Also included in the show are Cart's most recent images that explore the rare botanicals of the Carolina Lowcountry.
Having produced more than 200,000 black-and-white negatives throughout his career, Joshua Mann Pailet of New Orleans is a published photographer as well as one of the top photo dealers in the country.
Charleston City Paper, December 31, 2008
VIDEO
Having shown at Miami, New York and beyond, Chris Miner will show video work, including "The Best Decision Ever Made," "Auction" and "This Creature, I Am." The film, "The Best Decision Ever Made" is a 17-minute video from 2005 that takes the form of a confessional documentary in which Miner tours and films the house of his deceased grandparents, full of furniture, memories, and family photos.
Post and Courier, December 11, 2008