Geoffrey James: Trees    

TrépanierBaer Gallery 
February 4 - March 4

TrépanierBaer Gallery is pleased announce its participation in the 2023 Exposure Photography Festival with three exhibitions: Barbara Steinman: Keeping Time, Geoffrey James: Trees, and Evan Penny: The Venetian Mirror. While distinct in their respective representations, these photographic bodies of work share concerns regarding the poetics of space, time, and memory, and how they are translated and expressed via the genre of photography. All of the works on view are replete in both the visual and philosophical senses, and should not be missed! 

Geoffrey James is a picture maker who invests the raw materials of light, paper, and chemicals with the power to recall things. James has commented that the best photography gives a sense of what it is like to be there, that it has “a mnemonic power that no other medium has, a power to recall things...”

Comparisons can be made between , Geoffrey James: Trees and the works from Barbara Steinman: Keeping Time. Both series represent elements of the natural world. Most importantly, both series are visual records of these floral and arboreal examples at different moments of their existence, and place emphasis on the points in time of their respective chronologies captured in the photographs. The ephemerality of the smaller and fragile floral works stands in contrast to the permanence of the tall and sentinel trees. 

For over fifty years, Geoffrey James has used photography to investigate Western society through its landscapes. His ability to locate human aspirations through the built environment and natural environment coupled with a keen sense of pictorial structure has allowed him to find poetry and irony in the contemporary landscapes in which we live, work, and play. - Lori Pauli, Geoffrey James: Utopia / Dystopia, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Canada, 2008, p. 9

Open: Tue - Sat: 11:00 - 17:00
Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition is child friendly.
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TrépanierBaer Gallery, 999 - 8 St SW, Suite 105, Calgary AB T2R 1J5