Mark your calendars for Rob Kangas’ artist talk at the Hatch Art Gallery on Sunday, June 28th at 2pm. This event is free and open to the public, and brought to you in part by NOVA24. The gallery will be open until 5pm after the talk, so make sure you come out to see this show before it ends!
Looking Forward, Looking Back is a retrospective of the work of Rob Kangas. He has been showing photography since 1979, and taught photography at Oakland Community College for 38 years. 8 solo shows later, with work appearing in the DIA among 75 others, he is still going strong.
A statement from Rob about his work:
“So, to start off, I’m a lifelong film guy. Sure, I also make digital photographs like everybody else. But when it comes to art photographs, I’m a film guy. We are all unavoidably imprinted by our 1st love. My time and circumstances dropped me into the heyday of 35mm film. After decades in the darkroom, I now follow a hybrid practice of recording my images on film and outputting onto digital media.
I still enjoy the physical tasks of film. I like practicing the care and skill required where there are no do-overs. Every decision counts, just like in life.
A significant portion of my mature work departs from the single frame. My work utilizes sequencing, montage, manipulating time and light. For most of my work over the last 40 + years, I’ve tried to create images that explore comparison, juxtaposition and collision. All multiple overlapping exposures and adjacency are shot contiguously in camera. Color and grain come from chemistry. The prints are unedited faithful representations of the negatives.”
Exhibition Hours through June 28th:
Friday, June 26th | 6pm-9pm
Saturday, June 27th | 12pm-5pm
Sunday, June 28th | 12pm-5pm with Artist Talk at 2pm