For Immediate Release
Summer Selections at
the Joseph Bellows Gallery
Group Exhibition Includes San
Diego Photographers Bill Rastetter and Liz Cockrum
We are pleased to announce that
a summer group exhibition will open July 11th with an
opening reception from 5 – 8 pm. The exhibition
will run through August 29th.
The exhibition will include two
contemporary San Diego photographers: Bill Rastetter
and Liz Cockrum. Rastetter's ongoing Seascapes Series,
which consists of images shot in La Jolla, California
and Hawaii, captures the ocean at night. Using 4 x 5
inch color transparency film and time lapse photography,
with exposures lasting between one and eight minutes,
the oceans become more abstractions than literal landscapes.
The loss of wave structure creates an abstraction that
one might ordinarily associate with a watercolor painting
rather than a photograph. Rastetter's minimal and often
surreal seascapes capture views of the ocean not normally
accessible to the naked eye.
Liz Cockrum's ongoing series called
Sirens focuses on the lifestyle and culture of female
surfers. By documenting women in spaces outside of the
water, Cockrum's images go beyond the typical representation
of women in surfing and show the softer side of surf
culture. Her photographs show how this culture is infused
it into her subjects' daily lives and personal spaces.
Like Cockrum, photographer Joni Sternbach makes portraits
celebrating surfers and surf culture. Combining a 19th-century
process of tintype with a contemporary subject, Sternbach's
surfer subjects, photographed on the beach or near the
water, seem both current and timeless.
We will also feature work from
Virginia Beahan's recent book CUBA: singing with bright
tears, which is the culmination of the artist's seven-year
project photographing the social and political landscape
of Cuba.
Also included in the exhibition
are vintage prints of beach landscapes by Brett Weston
and Paul Capongiro and photographs of Coney Island in
the 1960s by Stephen Salmieiri. Photographs by Alex
Webb, Chip Hooper, Edward Sturr, William Dassonville,
and Pirkle Jones will also be included.
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For more information please contact:
Carol Lee Brosseau
carollee@josephbellows.com
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