CITYPAPER EXHIBIT REVIEW: David Myers’s ENDURING ROOTS by Louis Jacobson

Enduring Roots: A Solo Photography Exhibit, Myers’ 30-photograph exhibit at Multiple Exposures Gallery, documents olive trees and their surroundings, mostly on the Greek Island of Naxos, which seems to be a land of eternal, gentle sunlight. Some of Myers’ images echo Lee Friedlander’s desert landscape photographs of brambles and bushes; others capture the ancient rock walls or weathered industrial-age detritus. One image depicts circular buds dancing on slender stems, set against a clear sky, an homage to works by Harry Callahan.

One wide-angled landscape offers a bracing contrast between an inky black hillside and the blankness of the sky above; two others include a flock of flying birds that echo a notable image from John Gossage’s “The Pond.” One repeated motif involves fences, some made of wood but mostly of metal; in one image, a gridded fence suggests latitude and longitude lines, bent into a compellingly rippled surface. One of Myers’ most notable photographs features velvety-textured grass in which a roughly circular patch stands out as darker than the rest.