The S K Josefsberg Studio is pleased to present the work of Portland photographer Stu Levy, on view at the gallery
March 6 – April 12, 2003.

The Grid Portraits • gallery I

Perception involves the visual synthesis of incremental spaces at finite points of time. These photographs of artists and craftspeople explore and challenge our perceptive process by testing the limits of discontinuity, in both space and time, which our brains will accept in reading an image. Often included in the image is the photographer as voyeur and the material artifacts involved in making the photograph, including a Polaroid image of the finished portrait as a compositional element within the image. This self-referential element further emphasizes the act of perceiving, and in addition attests to the collaborative relationship between the photographer, his subject and the objects in their environments. 

This work gives a new meaning the 'The Decisive Moment', for the lattice-window view presents a maze of scrambled time and recombinant architecture.

- Stu Levy

Landscapes • gallery II

Stu Levy is most renown for his idyllic, majestic images of our precious and disappearing wilderness areas. It was because of Eliot Porter’s photographs that Levy began to truly appreciate the vulnerability of nature and its splendor. His meticulous printing practices, however, were refined from his assistant-relationship with Ansel Adams. And finally, it was through Minor White’s images that he came to appreciate the emotional magnitude of that photography is capable of.

These initial influences resonate in Stu Levy’s early landscape work, but the pupil has since established his own voice. Gallery II will feature Stu Levy’s classic landscape images along with some recent gems.
 

Preview Reception with the Artist
Wednesday March 5, 2003
5:30 - 7:30 pm