Exhibition Dates: February 13 - March 15, 2008
Opening Reception: February 13, 6-8pm

Main Gallery - Assignment by Heidi Schumann

Heidi Schumann is a photojournalist based in San Francisco who freelances for the New York Times and other publications, and is represented by Polaris Images. She has been published internationally through her work with the Associated Press, Reuters, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, Stern, and GQ, to name a few. Heidi’s image-making reflects a humanitarian focus and she strives to promote social awareness through her work. She exhibited a project on the effects of gun violence in several communities in Latin America at the United Nations in June 2006. In addition to selections from this project, Heidi will also be exhibiting work from the Congo, post-war Iraq, the tsunami in Sri Lanka, as well as images from Brazil and Central and North America.

Side Gallery - Seventeen Stories of Public Housing by Jason Reblando

Jason Reblando’s photographs of public housing document how the Chicago Housing Authority’s “Plan For Transformation” affects both the urban landscape and public housing residents. His intentions are two-fold: to humanize the housing projects through portraiture of residents, and to provide a context of the public housing landscape. Reblando is not only interested in portraying residents as a community, but he is also interested in documenting the physical space at stake in the uneven and unending development of Chicago. His work integrates formal elements of traditional portraiture with an examination of the built environment.In many photographs of public housing, the images connote a sense of confinement, of restriction, and of discipline that the space imposes on its residents. Reblando hopes that by emphasizing the expansiveness of the public housing landscape and the complexity of its community, viewers will question their own attachment to place.

Exhibition Dates: March 20 - April 20, 2008
Opening Reception: March 20, 6-8pm

Main Gallery - Whimsey photography by BAPC

Image courtesy of Kirk Thompson

The Bay Area Photography Collective is a nonprofit organization committed to building a community of photographers. Their work ranges from fine art to documentary, color to black and white, traditional darkroom to digital imaging. This exhibition explores the idea of whimsy. Humor is often overlooked as an element in fine art photography. This show addresses the lighter side directly and includes work that is witty, playful or ironic.

Side Gallery - Family Circus photography by Tatjana Loh

Exhibition Dates: April 24 - June 3, 2008
Opening Reception: April 27, 11am-5pm

Main Gallery - Pinhole and alternative camera images
by Kath Kreisher & Rebecca Rome

All of Kath Kreisher’s images begin with photography. Over several decades of art-making, she has altered photographs of herself and her personal environment by employing the distorting effects of handmade cameras, linking pictures through direct collage, painting on the surface of finished photographs, transforming them as photo-etchings, and eventually feeding them to the computer.

The original pictures for the “Contemplating Peace” diptychs are made outdoors through very long exposures in a large cardboard pinhole camera that holds 11×14″ fiber base photographic paper. After development, she generously alters some of the paper negatives by drawing or painting on them. Then Kreisher scans the painted pinhole photographs to her computer for further manipulation in where the files are stacked in a tight diptych format creating tall extended frame digital prints. Between frames comparisons can be made, narratives invented, real and imagined worlds linked.

Image courtesy of Kath Kreisher