Multiple Exposures Gallery Presents: Signature Images

Throughout the course of an artist’s lifetime, there are those images that stand apart, ones most resonant, to viewers and to the photographer. These are images with universal presence, timeless communication and meaning. And it these images that most exemplify personal style and become synonymous with the artist. These are Signature Images.

We are pleased to announce an exhibit of the Signature Images of the members of Multiple Exposures Gallery at the Village of Friendship Heights Community Gallery, located 4433 South Park Ave, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815. This exhibit will run from October 4 –30, 2010. Please join us for the opening reception on Sunday, October 10th, from 11:30 – 1:30 pm.

MEG is a co-operative gallery of 15 award-winning photographers located within the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Old Town Alexandria. Combined, the members represent over well 150 years of vast and varied photographic and artistic experience. Their distinctly different artistic visions are presented through traditional analogue and contemporary digital photographic techniques. Founded in 1985, Multiple Exposures Gallery is widely recognized within the Washington DC metropolitan area photographic community. The members are sought-after speakers, noted educators and traditional and digital photographic specialists and technicians.

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Signature Images

Village of Friendship Heights Community Gallery

4433 South Park Ave, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815

Opening Reception: Sunday, October 10th, 11:30 – 1:30 pm.

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New Work by Alan Sislen on Exhibit

New Heights

The Atacama – Chile’s Amazing High Desert

A photography exhibit featuring new works by Alan Sislen

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the highest, driest places on earth. The landscape is extraordinary, with mountains, salt flats, volcanoes, the world’s highest geyser field, and beautiful multi-colored traces of mineral deposits as far as the eye can see. But there is little else.

Sislen’s photographs depict subjects he continually returns to, especially the desolation and beauty of the desert. While he has repeatedly photographed White sands and Death Valley, this desert, the Atacama, is different. Unlike areas of Death Valley that are below sea level, the Atacama is a “high desert,” with mountains exceeding 20,000 feet in many locations.

The photographs in this exhibit were taken at heights of 7,500 t0 15,800 feet. The air is thin and rainfall has never been recorded in many areas. Although devoid of rain, the Atacama has been home to South American Indians for thousands of years. Rich in minerals, the Atacama has been mined for copper, gold, sodium nitrate (saltpeter), and more recently, lithium. Beautiful pale colors are seen at one altitude and strong, deep earthy tones are seen at another.

The Atacama is unique, with a geological history that is only matched by the visual delights that are found there.

October 5 - 31,

2010 Opening Reception: Saturday 9, 2010 2 - 4 pm

Final week to see Noakes and Taylor Exhibits

Next week will the final showing of work by gallery photographers Louise Noakes and Grace Taylor. Stop by the gallery to view this fascinating exhibit before it comes down on October 4.

Coming up next month:
Alan Sislen, New Heights - The Atacama, Chile's Amazing High Desert
Check back - details will be posted soon