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Krowswork

April 24 - May 24, 2010

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480 23rd Street Oakland, CA 94612
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Closer Than They Appear still from Sade Huron's video Marked
Krowswork Gallery is pleased to present Closer Than They Appear featuring video by William Eggleston, a video installation by Sade Huron, and photography by Ryan C. Smith. Each of these artists achieves a startling, unsuspected intimacy through their formally conceived, yet never unnatural, images of the everyday. Unspoken but thoroughly integrated into this intimacy is a consideration of place and placelessness, and of the lonely poignancy which often accompanies any careful, deliberate looking at that which is closest to you. Please join us for the opening reception on April 24th from 6 to 9 pm. Krowswork is located at 480 23rd Street, Oakland. Pioneering photographer William Eggleston made history in 1976 with the first exhibition of color photography at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. A few years before that show, though, in 1973, Eggleston had been one of the first experimenters with the cutting-edge Sony PortaPak, the first portable video camera. The result is Stranded in Canton, which will be continually on view at Krowswork, a 77-minute edit of over thirty hours of footage that chronicles the unique underbelly of the strange world of privilege and deprivation in the Mississippi Delta in the 1970s. Sade Huron is a Welsh-born video and performance artist who has made the Bay Area her home since 1998. In her installation at Krowswork she presents a video shot while driving on a highway, interspersed with footage that explores the process of remembering and searches personal memoir. The breakdown and deinterlacing of the video footage correspond directly to the breakdown, and opening up, of memory. Photography at its core is a transparent medium. When Ryan C. Smith takes portraits of people and places familiar to him, a transference takes place and the viewer becomes privy to a private dialogue that gets to the heart and breadth of the relationship of the photographer to his subject--all captured in a single, salient moment. Smith's photographs mostly picture friends, lovers, and relations from the Bay Area and his native Nebraska, and effortlessly integrate his evident devotion to them with a precise and observant distance from them.
Closer Than They Appear video still from William Eggleston's Stranded in Canton
Closer Than They Appear photo by Ryan C. Smith