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Photography @ CHAW

Jan. 11. 2010

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Linda Hesh
The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (“CHAW”), is a non-profit community institution that lives in a gracious  old school building at 7th and G Sts. SE which houses art classrooms, a dance studio, gallery space, a ceramics studio an open darkroom, and more. The gallery is currently showing the group’s fourth annual juried photography show and the opening Saturday night was jammed.

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Tripplaar's Galveston
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a happy Tim
The work selected constitutes a pretty good survey of the photography world today, ranging from the essentially abstract to the self-consciously arty to the political, with landscapes, portraits and what can only becalled snapshots included. I was attracted to Kristoffer Tripplaar’s color pictures of neglected and apparently abandoned places made in Galveston in 2008, likely too late to be Katrina damage but why else the abandonment? Have the colors been muted or is everything so bleached out and arid? The pictures effectively pose the questions.

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half of Goslee's self-portrait
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Pat and Simon
I also love Pat Goslee’s dyptich and tryptich digital prints on aluminum. Her two-paneled “self portrait” is all light on dark, barbed wire fencing and what may be light waves, tough, prickly and protective against light, high-spirited and delicate – not a bad representation of the yin and yang of a real personality.
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Michael O'S. and Ms. Arkin discussing

 

 
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