Current Exhibition:
Katherine Westerhout
"At Long Last"
January 13 — February 18
Opening: Friday, January 13, 6-8 PM
Project Room: Jim Haynes, "Disaster and its Opposite"
Artist: Katherine Westerhout, Grossinger's Pool, Catskills, archival pigment print, 2011
Electric Works is pleased to announce "At Long Last" Katherine Westerhout's third solo show at the gallery. In this exhibition Westerhout continues her exploration of urban disused architectural spaces including such locations as Oakland, California; Yonkers, New York; Liberty, New York; Rantoul, Illinois; and Gary Indiana, among others. In this new body of work Westerhout still maintains her strict guidelines for photographing —only using available light and no staging of the areas in which she photographs—and these restrictions only add to the power of the rich highly detailed photographs she has generated for this exhibition. From a series shot at the one-time glamorous getaway known as Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, where outside vegetation is literally taking over the vast swimming hall to the poetic but decaying Palace Theatre from Gary, Indiana, Westerhout's work documents not only the beauty of a bygone era, but also comments on where America has been and reflects on where it is going.
ARTIST WALKTHROUGH: Please join us on Saturday, February 4 at 2 PM for an artist walkthrough of the exhibition as we raise a glass of champagne and have an informal chat about the work.
Westerhout received her B.A. in Art/Photography from San Francisco State University and began exhibiting in the late 1990's. She has shown widely in the United States and abroad. Among her collectors are the San Jose Museum of Art and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.
Jim Haynes, "Merapi
Aftermath", 2012, silver gelatine and rust, 16" x 20"
Electric Works is pleased to welcome back visual and sound artist Jim Haynes to the Project Space. Haynes creates almost-abstract images via a unique photographic and rust process. The resulting images feel like half-remembered dreams of the American landscape. Haynes is also branching out in new directions with this show: color photography is making its first appearance in his work at the gallery. This body of work not only contrasts nicely with the almost-black and white nature of his earlier work, but also reveals Haynes as a sensitive and subtle creator of photographic images, no matter the medium.
Jim Haynes lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Exploratorium (San Francisco), Westspace (Melbourne, Australia), Diapason (New York), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), Works (San Jose), Eyedrum (Atlanta), The Fugitive Art Center (Nashville), and Varnish (San Francisco). He writes about sound art, noise culture, minimalism, and general music experimentation for The Wire, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Metro Pulse, The Sound Projector, and Chunklet.