SF Camerawork's Summer Exhibitions: Matt Bryans and Michael Garlington

Matt Bryans: Breaking the Land

Utilizing only India erasers and inky photographs on newsprint, Matt Bryans transforms newspaper cuttings into epic installations. His new large-scale work presented in Breaking the Land invokes turn-of-the-century American landscape imagery, with hundreds of small images reassembled into breathtaking panoramas. Bryans explores the boundaries of photographic art and the photograph as an object by employing the (soon-to-be antiquated) newspaper image as raw material.

Michael Garlington: Photohouse

Through rural America and the European countryside, Bay Area-based artist Michael Garlington and his Photocar were difficult to miss. Covered in photographs, Garlington undertook eleven cross-country journeys in Photocar, providing him the opportunity to encounter all walks of life. Drawing on these experiences, Garlington has created a newly commissioned work: Photohouse, a large-scale, three-dimensional model of a Victorian house covered in a “skin” of his photographs.

June 2—August 20, 2011
Opening Reception: June 2, 2011, 5 - 8 pm

Support for Photohouse and Breaking the Land was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.