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Gallery Carte Blanche

June 16 - June 16, 2012

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973 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110
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Artists Talk & Book signing - Beth Yarnelle Edwards & Frank Yamrus
Carte Blanche is pleased to announce the first of its series of artists’ talks and book signing events featuring photographers Beth Yarnelle Edwards and Frank Yamrus. Join us at 973 Valencia Street, San Francisco on Saturday June 16th from 5.30 for their introductory presentations followed by an opportunity to meet the artists and get your books signed while enjoying a glass of wine. More info about the photographers and their books Since 1997 photographer Beth Yarnelle Edwards has been making photographs in idyllic suburban middle-class settings in America and Europe. The first photos in this series were created in California’s Silicon Valley, where the artist lived, and subsequent pictures were made in Germany, France, Spain, Iceland and the Netherlands. Edwards approaches scenes of everyday life with a mixture of documentary interest and cinematographic staging. She combines real-life settings with philosophical truths, thus conveying images of loneliness, of constant media exposure, of minor escapes and major yearnings. Without making any value judgments, the pictures give us a revealing glimpse of interpersonal relationships, domestic rituals, customs and leisure pastimes. Originally inspired by the onset of a midlife crisis, “I Feel Lucky” is Frank Yamrus‘s highly personal series of self-portraits, revealing the joy and sorrow of passing through his 47th to 53rd years. Initially titled Less Than or Equal to 50, this series began with a looming deadline of his 50th birthday, as if on this milestone his midlife crisis would magically resolve itself. At the time, typical midlife crisis issues — relationships, faith, career, health and mortality — were producing classic midlife crisis symptoms — moodiness, exhaustion, the desire to make change and some deafening private politics of self-identity. With his camera, his constant companion during this time, Yamrus contemplated a lifetime of choices and created present-day images to evaluate his past with the hope of glimpsing his future. Carte Blanche: www.gallerycarteblanche.com Beth Yarnelle Edwards: www.bethyarnelleedwards.com Frank Yamrus: www.frankyamrus.com