PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Holy Family University invites the public to Desert Textures, a show by award-winning photographer Samuel Fee, running October 2-30, 2013, with an artist reception on Tuesday, October 8 from 7-9 pm.
Through imagery of landscapes from the American West, Fee’s work illuminates and records changes to the natural world through time. Desert Textures considers a specific landscape in New Mexico that exists in a state of constant visual transformation as a result of sunlight and wind.
A professor of computing and information studies at Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Fee says, “My work is designed to challenge two common misperceptions: the first is that the desert is a lifeless and bleak landscape, and the second is that a landscape is still and without narrative. On the contrary, the desert is full of life, but that life takes different—and I would argue, more dazzling—forms from what many viewers might expect. And the sudden emergence of those forms provides the action in the narrative that I believe landscape photography can tell.”
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The photographs in Desert Textures draw upon Fee’s expertise in digital media.
The Holy Family University Art Gallery is located in the Education and Technology Center at 9801 Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia. Admission is free, and the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 8 am to 9 pm, and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 pm.
