Lost/Found: Explorations in Photographic Time and Space - Washington City paper Critics' pick
Lost/Found, a photography group show, was featured in Washington City Paper’s art critics’ pick by Louis Jacobson.
Studio Gallery’s annual photography exhibition doesn’t reach the heights of last year’s unusually fruitful effort, but the exhibit’s dozen artists collectively offer an impressive range of styles. Steven Marks produces lush, dream-like color images; Gary Anthes uses crisp black-and-white to document forlorn corners of Navajo country; Iwan Bagus contributes a deeply personal meditation on his late mother that features a brain scan and sarongs; and Shaun Schroth assembles still lifes using bits of natural detritus, including mesmerizing wisps of milkweed. Of special note are works by Soomin Ham, who creatively repurposes old, damaged film into mixed media collages, and Rania Razek, who chronicles broad sweeps in lonely places, from a backwoods road to a supple sand dune. But the finest contribution may be Matt Francisco’s understated, elegiac photographs that depict window blinds whose hues channel the ambient light of different times of day.