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a.Muse Gallery

January 9 - February 6, 2011

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614 Alabama Street San Francisco, CA 94110
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Change is the Only Constant Seth Dickerman, Coral Beach (detail of 9 panel panorama)
Influenced in equal parts by painters and filmmakers, Dickerman’s work delves into the space between stillness and motion. In most of his work, his handheld camera is in practice a motion picture camera, with the unfolding narrative before it layered over times of up to four minutes onto a single frame of film. According the the artist, “The narrative is of the dynamic relationships of earth, fire, water, and air--of stillness and motion, night and day . Change is the only constant." The panoramas are composed of multiple, fluidly linked images. These photographs are made with a fairly rapidly moving camera, in which the film is being advanced and the shutter opened and closed at roughly the same speed as the camera. As the relationship of camera and film speed varies, so does the degree of synchronicity of the panorama. Slight overlaps occurring from frame to frame are indications of a degree of “time travel,” as they are views of the same place, at different times. Dickerman built his first darkroom in 1968, when he was 12. Since graduating from Carnegie-Mellon University with a BFA in Art in 1978, he has worked as an artist, educator, and photographic printer. He has operated a custom photo lab in San Francisco since 1996. His work has been widely shown and is in numerous public and private collections in North and South America, and in Europe.