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하우의 권오중님 게시물을 퍼옵니다. 대단히 죄송하게도, 사정상 퍼온다는 말씀을 못한지라 삭제의 압박이 있음을 알려드립니다.
당면 문제. low key/low contrast 의 개념을 확립할 것. 혹은 잡채를 위한.
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Over the years Tom Kearcher has rallied his artistic interests
between photography, ceramics and printmaking.
His initial interest in
photography stemmed from a boyhood chum in Connecticut, whose father was also a
photographer.
Aside from this immediate influence, Kearcher's artistic
interests and talents were varied.
In 1975 he received his Bachelor of
Science in Ceramics from the University of Oregon,
after which he moved to
Berkeley, California. While there,
in the early 1980's, Kearcher met and
studied with the allusive Czech Surrealist
Vilem Kriz , who was by that time
teaching at the California School of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California.
Spawning from this tutelage, Kriz and Kearcher would remain close friends
until Kriz's death in 1994.
Encouraged by his surrealist mentor, Kearcher
returned to the University of Oregon for his Master of Fine Arts in Photography.
Immediately following though,
in 1988, he re-enrolled in the post-graduate
program for Ceramics.
In 1995 Kearcher contacted the famed
John
Goodman, who, with the generous patronage of Paul Strand's widow, had revived
the art of Photogravure in the United States. Traveling to Goodman's studio and
workshop in Massachusetts, Kearcher learned the antique process, and has since
become a master of it.
This exhibition of Tom Kearcher's
photographic work will feature his Photogravure and Palladium prints.
His
imagery, further enhanced by the antiquated processes, are truly classical. With
regards to his sumptuous Photogravures,
his studies of women evoke the
painterly qualities of
Francisco Goya or Jacques Louis David,
while his
landscapes recall the purity and romanticism of
Edward Curtis.
The
Palladium prints, whether of still-lifes or figurative studies, emulate the
atmosphere of Czech masters,
including Josef Sudek, and Secessionist
provocateurs like Eduard Steichen.
In short, Tom Kearcher is a contemporary
classicist whose skill reflects that of a master craftsman.
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