Out West: Photographs by Karl Peterson
September 6th – October 9th, 2005
Opening Reception Thursday, September 15, 6 - 8 pm
An exhibition of ten photographs created by Karl Peterson will open on September 6th, 2005 The large scale black and white images are a travelogue from a cross-country motorcycle trip through the American northwest in the Fall of 2004.
There will be a reception September 15, from 6 - 8 PM. The exhibition will remain on view through October 9th in Tisch School’s Gulf+Western Gallery (main floor, rear of lobby) located at 721 Broadway. Gallery hours are 10 am through 7 pm weekdays, and noon to 5 pm Saturdays. Admission is free. For further information, call 212.998.1930.
Peterson describes the images as “documents of things that existed, at least for one moment in time, if only from a certain point of view. Their intention is to bring evidence of a greater world back home, whether that world exhibits the hand of man in a roll of hay, or a lack thereof in a mound of dirt. The subjects are obscure and seldom recognized monuments, recorded for posterity.”
The Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts is a four-year B.F.A. program centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. Situated within a university, the program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum and a serious and broad grounding in the liberal arts. The faculty and staff consist of artists, professional photographers, designers, critics, historians, and scholars working from a wide range of perspectives and media.
