Please join us on Thursday, April 19, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm for the opening reception of Going to Gansu, an exhibit of work by NY-based photographer and book artist, Peter Bogardus. Going to Gansu is our second exhibit in a series guest curated by Kate Contakos.
The exhibit will be on view until May 12.
Photographed from the window of a slow moving train on a journey across China, Peter Bogardus’s latest body of work is a meditation on the passage of time and of the persistence of memory. The prints are pulled from copperplates whose atmospheric imperfections reveal a mystical and mysterious landscape encountered on the way to Dunhuang in the Gansu Province of China. The exhibition consists of 13 photogravure images with hand-mixed color pigments mounted onto handmade wooden panels.
Peter Bogardus is a photographer, printer, and book artist best known for his images documenting spiritual pilgrimages. He shoots predominantly with a large format film camera and prints his images from etched copper plates as photogravures. He produces his work in his studio in New York under his own imprint, Khelcom New York. He is a 2012 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Photography.
Kate Contakos exhibits images done by living artists working in historical and alternative photographic processes, engraved prints and artists’ books. For fifteen years she has worked to preserve cultural heritage materials and serves on the board of https://www.sfada.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/62ea1b4d-ab1c-48e1-b79f-3a41f5857004-1.gifs of the CODEX Foundation in Berkeley, CA. She has curated exhibitions in London, New York and San Francisco.
We look forward to showing you Peter’s beautiful work at the reception on April 19 as well as during regular business hours between now and May 12.
