Preview: Still Life at Jennifer Schwartz Gallery
The Westside’s newest gallery exhibits a group show featuring work by Julie Blackmon, Michael Marshall, Aline Smithson and Maggie Taylor
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- Julie Blackmon, “Portrait”
The Westside Arts District continues to grow. Last month, Jennifer Schwartz Gallery packed up their location in the TULA Art Center and joined the ranks of Saltworks, Sandler Hudson, Kiang, and others that have been making a name for the neighborhood. Next week, the gallery, which exclusively represents photographers, will exhibit Still Life, a group show featuring work by Julie Blackmon, Michael Marshall, Aline Smithson and Maggie Taylor.
The show brings together photographers whose work explores the relationship and limits between photography and painting. The gallery posits that recent developments in digital technology has made this relationship more fluid: “Painting heavily influenced photography by dictating the aesthetics which the medium should strive toward; however, with the rise of photographic digitization in the past decade or so, photography has exploded as an experimental medium, incorporating almost all painterly techniques.”
Check out a few images of work from the show and more information about the artists after the jump. Still Life opens on Fri., April 8 at 7 pm.