Events for December 16, 2020

  The public is invited to a Virtual Museum Opening on December 16, 6 to 8 pm If you are not receiving our emails be sure to sign up here and keep a look-out for the Zoom link just prior to the event!!   PAINTING WITH LIGHT Hyper-Realistic Photographs by Matt Stock December 17 to January 30, 2021 “Matt Stock’s area of expertise is creating hyper-realistic nighttime photographs in the most inhospitable and remote locations imaginable with a technique he describes as ‘painting with light.’ With this technique, Stock and his team meticulously illuminate a scene in intimate ways on location: often leaf by leaf and root by root,” said NeJame. Using light sources ranging from the Milky Way and full moon to specialized lighting tools through the course of many hours and dozens of individual exposures, the photographer works in the dead of night and brings light into the darkness. This illuminating process can also be thought of as a subtractive process in the same way that a sculptor subtracts portions of a block of marble to reveal the artwork within. “While on set, I think not about where I am adding light to, but rather where I am chipping away at the shadows,” explained Stock. “After these dozens of exposures are recorded, I then return to my digital

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