Visual Arts

EVERITT CLARK: Night and Day—The Suburbs of Northern Virginia

Opening Reception: Thu Feb 2 / 5:30-7:30pm / Free

Wed Feb 1 - Sat Mar 31
Free
Mezz Gallery

Artist Talk with Cynthia Connolly, Visual Arts Curator, 6:00pm

In two recent series of photographs -- one taken during the day, the other at night -- Everitt Clark has uncovered the beauty of northern Virginia’s suburban land­scape. The daytime images depict the ornery persistence of the natural world in the suburbs, while the nighttime works reveal the uncanny contrasts that lurk in our own backyards when the sun goes down. The photographs are black-and-white silver gelatin contact prints pulled by hand from 4”x5” negatives, a labor-in­tensive process which produces images of unsurpassed tonal density and razor-sharp detail. They reveal the unexpected grandeur of an abandoned gas station, the scraps of plastic caught in a tree, and the lamps on a lonely street at dusk.