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Stephen Wirtz Gallery

April 27 - June 19, 2011

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49 Geary Street 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94108
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A New American Picture
Opening reception for the artist: Thursday, May 5, 2011 Stephen Wirtz Gallery is pleased to present A New American Picture, photographs by Doug Rickard. Rickard’s series consists of color photographs of American street scenes, located using the internet tool Google Street View. Rickard takes full advantage of the technology’s comprehensive image archive to virtually drive the unseen and overlooked roads of America, bleak places that are forgotten, economically devastated, and abandoned. Collectively, these images present a startling photographic portrait of the socially disenfranchised, providing deeply affecting evidence of the American Dream inverted.