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Jay Dusard
“Direct Gaze: Photographs of the American West”
September 3 – November 30, 2010
“Direct Gaze: Photographs of the American West”
September 3 – November 30, 2010
Jay Dusard, Bill Moorhouse, Bob Phillips, Jeff Shipp, Jack Bowlin and Jerry Brashears, ORO Ranch, Arizona, 1980
The Paul Paletti Gallery is pleased to announce our exhibition of the photographs of Arizona based photographer, Jay Dusard. Inspired by his personal connection to the people and cowboy culture of the west, Dusard captures panoramic landscapes and cowboy portraits with an authenticity only a trusted fellow cowpuncher could achieve. While Dusard’s photography spans more than four decades, this “Direct Gaze” selection (1980–2002) provides a glimpse of the ever-diminishing, yet profoundly cherished, American West.
Among Dusard’s influences are his mentor, artist/photographer Frederick Sommer, and photographers Ansel Adams and Arnold Newman. Like Sommer, Dusard used an 8”×10” view camera for most of the work produced on the Guggenheim Fellowship that enabled him to travel to some 45 ranches from British Columbia to Chihuahua. Dusard’s style is honest, open and uncomplicated in his portraits of the people living and working as modern day cowboys. And they return Dusard’s straightforwardness with their own candor and direct gaze at the camera’s lens, the photographer, and the eye of the viewer. In the panoramic landscapes of the 1990s, Dusard invites viewers to join him in marveling at the grandeur of terrains set in California, Wyoming, Utah, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Born in 1937 in St. Louis, Missouri, Dusard has been the subject of museum exhibitions including: Charles M. Russell Museum, Montana; the Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Consejo Mexicano de Fotografia, Mexico City; Art Museum of South Texas, and the International Photography Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City. Jay’s 1981 Guggenheim launched his grandest adventure. With camera, bedroll, and saddle, he motored wide-ranging “circles” throughout the domain of working cowboys, vaqueros, and buckaroos. He “rode for the brand” with many of them and returned with timeless images.This “adventure” resulted in the publication, The North American Cowboy: A Portrait (1983), followed by Open Country, a book which earned third place in the 1994 Photographic Book of the Year competition. Dusard currently resides with his wife, Kathie, near Douglas, Arizona.
Among Dusard’s influences are his mentor, artist/photographer Frederick Sommer, and photographers Ansel Adams and Arnold Newman. Like Sommer, Dusard used an 8”×10” view camera for most of the work produced on the Guggenheim Fellowship that enabled him to travel to some 45 ranches from British Columbia to Chihuahua. Dusard’s style is honest, open and uncomplicated in his portraits of the people living and working as modern day cowboys. And they return Dusard’s straightforwardness with their own candor and direct gaze at the camera’s lens, the photographer, and the eye of the viewer. In the panoramic landscapes of the 1990s, Dusard invites viewers to join him in marveling at the grandeur of terrains set in California, Wyoming, Utah, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Born in 1937 in St. Louis, Missouri, Dusard has been the subject of museum exhibitions including: Charles M. Russell Museum, Montana; the Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Consejo Mexicano de Fotografia, Mexico City; Art Museum of South Texas, and the International Photography Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City. Jay’s 1981 Guggenheim launched his grandest adventure. With camera, bedroll, and saddle, he motored wide-ranging “circles” throughout the domain of working cowboys, vaqueros, and buckaroos. He “rode for the brand” with many of them and returned with timeless images.This “adventure” resulted in the publication, The North American Cowboy: A Portrait (1983), followed by Open Country, a book which earned third place in the 1994 Photographic Book of the Year competition. Dusard currently resides with his wife, Kathie, near Douglas, Arizona.
Wet Plate
As a part of the second Louisville Visual Arts Festival showcasing Glass30 - Four Weeks of Fire, the Paul Paletti Gallery is exhibiting photographs created using the historic wet – plate collodion process. This process, which was invented in 1851 and dominated photography until 1875, uses large format cameras to make negatives on plates of glass or blackened metal. These plates must be coated with a light sensitive solution, exposed in the camera, and then developed, all before the plate dries out. Wet Plate is an exhibit to educate and delight its viewers by showcasing two artists, Paul Taylor and Bill Schwab, who use 4” x 5” to 8” x 10” view cameras with this difficult and archaic technology to create their photographic images.
Taylor’s scenic imagery of Cappadocia, Turkey and Connecticut River Landscapes engulf the viewer in their broad observations and large toned gelatin silver prints.
Bill Schwab creates haunting landscapes, portraits and still life images in ambrotypes and tintypes, two variations of the wet plate process.
The Louisville Visual Arts Festival, Glass30 - Four Weeks of Fire, runs from June 9th to July 10th. Wet Plate will open June 2, 2010, and be on exhibit at the Paul Paletti Gallery, 713 East Market St., Louisville, KY 40202, every weekday from 9 – 5 through August. For further information call (502)589.9254
As a part of the second Louisville Visual Arts Festival showcasing Glass30 - Four Weeks of Fire, the Paul Paletti Gallery is exhibiting photographs created using the historic wet – plate collodion process. This process, which was invented in 1851 and dominated photography until 1875, uses large format cameras to make negatives on plates of glass or blackened metal. These plates must be coated with a light sensitive solution, exposed in the camera, and then developed, all before the plate dries out. Wet Plate is an exhibit to educate and delight its viewers by showcasing two artists, Paul Taylor and Bill Schwab, who use 4” x 5” to 8” x 10” view cameras with this difficult and archaic technology to create their photographic images.
Taylor’s scenic imagery of Cappadocia, Turkey and Connecticut River Landscapes engulf the viewer in their broad observations and large toned gelatin silver prints.
Bill Schwab creates haunting landscapes, portraits and still life images in ambrotypes and tintypes, two variations of the wet plate process.
The Louisville Visual Arts Festival, Glass30 - Four Weeks of Fire, runs from June 9th to July 10th. Wet Plate will open June 2, 2010, and be on exhibit at the Paul Paletti Gallery, 713 East Market St., Louisville, KY 40202, every weekday from 9 – 5 through August. For further information call (502)589.9254
Image by Paul Taylor, Gulludere II
Image by Bill Schwab, Gates
2010 Louisville Visual Arts Festival
GLASS30 - Four Weeks of Fire
(June - August)
The Paul Paletti Gallery is pleased to support the 40th Annual Glass Art Society Conference, June 9 - 12th, which also kicks off the second Louisville Visual Arts Festival showcasing Glass30 - Four Weeks of Fire.
On June 9th, the Conference begins with glass demonstrations, productions, art displays, lectures and installations. Our part in this Conference and Festival is to exhibit photographs developed by using the most fundamental form of photography itself. Wet Plate, will be a show that educates and delights its viewers with the result of using glass negatives to create a photographic image. The show will include wet plate collodion prints and ambrotypes by Paul Taylor plus ambrotypes and tintypes by Bill Schwab. The LVAF showing Glass30 - Four Weeks of Fire, will sustain through the rest of June. Our show, Wet Plate will continue to be on exhibit until August 31st.
For more information on the Glass Art Society (G.A.S) Conference and the 2010 Louisville Visual Arts Festival / Glass30 - Four Weeks of Fire, you may visit the following site. http://www.gaslouisville2010.org/
To get caught up on the 2009 Louisville Visual Arts Festival, you may visit the following site.
http://louisvillevisualartsfestival.org/
The Paul Paletti Gallery is pleased to support the 40th Annual Glass Art Society Conference, June 9 - 12th, which also kicks off the second Louisville Visual Arts Festival showcasing Glass30 - Four Weeks of Fire.
On June 9th, the Conference begins with glass demonstrations, productions, art displays, lectures and installations. Our part in this Conference and Festival is to exhibit photographs developed by using the most fundamental form of photography itself. Wet Plate, will be a show that educates and delights its viewers with the result of using glass negatives to create a photographic image. The show will include wet plate collodion prints and ambrotypes by Paul Taylor plus ambrotypes and tintypes by Bill Schwab. The LVAF showing Glass30 - Four Weeks of Fire, will sustain through the rest of June. Our show, Wet Plate will continue to be on exhibit until August 31st.
For more information on the Glass Art Society (G.A.S) Conference and the 2010 Louisville Visual Arts Festival / Glass30 - Four Weeks of Fire, you may visit the following site. http://www.gaslouisville2010.org/
To get caught up on the 2009 Louisville Visual Arts Festival, you may visit the following site.
http://louisvillevisualartsfestival.org/
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