BOOK OF JOB: Solo Exhibition by Timothy Hyde →

West Liberty, Kentucky © Timothy Hyde

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of BOOK BOOK OF JOB JOB, a solo exhibition of photographic work by Timothy Hyde. The exhibition opens on October 8, 2024, and runs through November 17, 2024. 
 
BOOK OF JOB revisits the three projects that have consumed much of Tim's creative energies and time in the past two decades, projects that explore surprisingly similar themes — natural disasters, night prowls, and what Tim describes as "the ever-present scourge of our species, neighbor-against-neighbor violence." 

“We humans confront fundamental forces in our universe, forces both natural and man-made. Such primordial forces are often hostile, frequently violent, and sometimes threaten our very survival. We encounter them as individuals, as families, and as communities. Humans have created mighty defenses against these threats, erecting tsunami walls, light for the dark recesses of the night, and education for our children against intolerance. But the world is scarcely less hostile today than ever before. And like Job, we are not entirely innocent," Tim says. (Read a full statement HERE)
 
BOOK OF JOB will be Tim's last show at Multiple Exposures Gallery as he is leaving the gallery in December, and we encourage everyone to take advantage of this opportunity to see his thought-provoking work up close before his tenure at MEG concludes. 

MEET THE ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES

• October 8, 20, 21, 22, 27

• November 16, 17                                 

Tim will be at Multiple Exposures Gallery from 11am-5pm on the dates above. We invite you to stop in to see the exhibition and engage in conversation with Tim about the two decades of photographic exploration that inspired this remarkable body of work. Multiple Exposures Gallery is located on the 3rd Floor in the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA. [map]

ABOUT ARTIST

Tim Hyde was raised in the Midwest but has lived in Washington, DC, for many years. As a photographer, he is best known for his work with natural disasters. He has covered earthquakes in Haiti and Italy, the tsunami in Japan, volcanoes in Iceland, and floods, tornados, hurricanes, and droughts around the U.S.

All of Tim’s work investigates issues around the relationship of man and nature, humans and their environment. One series he will be featuring at Multiple Exposures is called “Country.” This series includes photographs of buildings and structures in small towns and agricultural areas, showing a way of life that is passing. Our small towns and farms are not disappearing, but they are undergoing far-reaching changes. Underneath it all, mother nature is relentless in pushing back against our works.

Tim’s photographs have been published in the New York Times and a variety of other publications. He has won awards and exhibited his work around Washington and elsewhere. He was juried into the Multiple Exposures Gallery in 2012.

email: hydet1@mac.com
web: www.timhyde.com
IG: @Timothy Hyde

Contact Information For Media & Purchase Inquiries
High resolution images for media use are available upon request. All images are available for purchase through the gallery. Tim can be reached by email at hydet1@mac.com. 

Louis Jacobson’s Must-See Fall Photography Exhibits: Off Broadway: Grit And Grandeur

WCP’s photography critic, Louis Jacobson, shares his thoughts on the season’s most thought-provoking, intriguing, and dramatic photo exhibits. Off-Broadway: Grit and Grandeur, Van Pulley’s solo exhibit, is one of his Must-See Fall Photography Exhibits. Read more here.

Off Broadway: Grit and Grandeur, New Exhibit by Van Pulley

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present Off Broadway: Grit and Grandeur, a new fine art photography exhibition by Van Pulley.

On the streets of New York City, fresh and unconventional scenes play out continuously. Every block offers a living tableau that can amaze and excite — or shock and repel — an unsuspecting audience. In OFF BROADWAY: GRIT AND GRANDEUR, fine art photographer Van Pulley pulls viewers into scenes that feel like frozen moments of a compelling Off Broadway play where both the grit and grandeur of the city come into focus. Memorable characters living in the city and throngs of visiting "extras" share equal billing with the "set designers" who constructed the extraordinary backdrops that serve as the stage for the daily unfolding drama that is New York City.

OFF BROADWAY: GRIT AND GRANDEUR is on view at Multiple Exposures Gallery from August 27-October 6, 2024. The gallery is open 11am-5pm daily.

MEET THE ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES
Van Pulley will be at Multiple Exposures Gallery from 11am-5pm on the following dates:

• August 30, 31

• September 1, 14, 15, 28

• October 5, 6                                        

We invite you to stop in to see the exhibition and speak with Van about his artistic vision and the exhibition. Multiple Exposures Gallery is located on the 3rd Floor in the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA. [map]

Contact Information For Media & Purchase Inquiries
High resolution images for media use are available upon request. All images are available for purchase through the gallery.

Washington Post: In The Galleries : 14 VISIONS, MEG Group Show

Exhibit Review by Mark Jenkins

The title of Multiple Exposures Gallery’s “14 Visions” emphasizes the 14 contributors’ individuality. Yet many of the photographs selected by curator Allison Nance dovetail neatly. While half are in black-and-white and half in color, the latter pictures are usually muted and sometimes nearly monochromatic. Stacy Smith Evans’s mountain panorama is mostly blue with splashes of yellow sunlight, and Francine B. Livaditis’s study of a Frank Gehry building is predominantly silvery. The near-abstract elements of Maureen Minehan’s elegant close-up of a boat and its tether are black and cream, framed by a luminous expanse of light-green water.

The greens are stronger in Irina Dakhnovskaia-Lawton’s picture of a woman who poses next to a painted portrait, but the hues are cool and their range narrow. One of the show’s few touches of red is the illuminated stop sign suspended high above an intersection in Fred Zafran’s round-midnight shot of a Tokyo back street. And while that photo is unusually colorful, compositionally it fits well with a half dozen others that feature rectangles of light within overwhelming darkness.

Two of the most effective of these pictures are by Tim Hyde and David Myers. The first peers through a door frame into a shadowy room to spy a partly illuminated patch of bed; the second gazes out, past a bed frame in a near-black chamber, to reveal a window that admits light but no sense of what’s beyond. If the sense of isolation in such scenes is suffocating, Van Pulley’s nighttime moment is more expansive. His photo captures a steel-gray sky split by a ribbon of stars that are also reflected in still water below. The composition evocatively juxtaposes light and dark, openness and confinement.

“14 VISIONS”, MEG Group Show Juried by Allison Nance

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present 14 VISIONS, juried by Allison Nance, managing director of The Nicholson Project. This fine art photography exhibition presents a rich mosaic of styles, subjects and stories, with each photograph reflecting the distinctive voice and technique of the photographer who made it. 

"Merriam Webster defines 'vision' as the act of seeing, something seen in a dream or a trance, a thought or concept (often of hope) imagined for the future, a lovely or charming sight, or an unusual discernment or foresight.…While vastly different, these works come together to give the viewer a new way of seeing the world from the photographers’ perspectives.” — Allison Nance, Juror, 14 VISIONS

Exhibition Dates: July 30 - August 25, 2024

Exhibition Artists: Stacy Smith Evans, Soomin Ham, Tim Hyde, Eric Johnson, Irina Lawton, Sandy LeBrun-Evans, Francine B. Livaditis, Maureen Minehan, David Myers, Van Pulley, Sarah Hood Salomon, Alan Sislen, Tom Sliter and Fred Zafran

Exhibition Hours: 11am-5pm daily

Location: Multiple Exposures Gallery | Torpedo Factory Art Center | #312

Contact Information For Media & Purchase Inquiries
High resolution images for media use are available upon request. All images are available for purchase through the gallery. 

Washington City Paper: City Lights for July 11-17: PROGRESSION by Lou Jacoboson

“Passing Time, San Niccolo” by Stacy Smith Evans; part of Multiple Exposures Gallery’s Progression

Daily: Progression at Multiple Exposures Gallery

It’s a project with a design so convoluted that few would dare attempt it twice within nine months. But the photographers of Multiple Exposures Gallery are game for another Progressions exhibit, in which 15 members contribute 45 images in sequence, thematically playing off the previous image with either a photograph they’ve already taken or with a new one. The new image may mirror the previous one’s subject matter, composition, or color, but there needs to be some visual or thematic linkage. As with last year’s version of Progressions, windows and chairs are a bit overused as transitional elements (this time around, I’d add clouds to the overused list, despite their loving portrayals throughout the exhibit). The intended connections usually become clear; only a couple of times was the link so obscure that I missed it. But the real test of images in the exhibit isn’t their connection to the preceding and following photographs, but whether they stand out in isolation. Fortunately, many in Progressions do. Notable images include Irina Lawton’s spindly playground structures set against a fire-red sky; Stacy Smith Evans’ gaggle of teenagers on a European street corner; Sandy LeBrun–Evans’ bracingly rough-hewn image of a cafe patron and a figure walking through a passageway in the background; Soomin Ham’s barely visible insect on a striated, translucent surface; Van Pulley’s portrayal of a sand dune that ranges in tone from sepia to inky black; and Alan Sislen’s image of a man alongside a rural road marked by zebra-like shadows, thanks to trees lining the roadway. With Progressions, come for the brainteaser, but prepare for some wide-eyed stops along the way. Progressions runs through July 28 at Multiple Exposures Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. Daily, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. multipleexposuresgallery.com. Free. —Louis Jacobson

"PROGRESSION": A Collaborative Group Show by MEG Members

Multiple Exposures Gallery (MEG) is pleased to announce PROGRESSION, a new fine art photography exhibition.  

On display at MEG through July 28, 2024, the exhibition features a sequence of photographs, with each one chosen for its relation to the previous image. The relationships among the 45 included images may be based on composition, color, geography or other characteristics — the choice was left to each of the 15 contributing artists. Exhibition visitors are invited to observe each image as it appears in the sequence and consider what the connection to the previous image might have been. 

Exhibition Artists: Stacy Smith Evans, Soomin Ham, Tim Hyde, Eric Johnson, Irina Lawton, Sandy LeBrun-Evans, Matt Leedham, Francine B. Livaditis, Maureen Minehan, David Myers, Van Pulley, Sarah Hood Salomon, Alan Sislen, Tom Sliter and Fred Zafran

Artist Information: Artists

Exhibition dates: July 2 - July 28, 2024
Exhibition hours: 11am-5pm daily
Location: Multiple Exposures Gallery | Torpedo Factory Art Center | #312

View the Exhibition Virtually: PROGRESSION

Contact Information For Media & Purchase Inquiries
High resolution images for media use are available upon request. All images are available for purchase through the gallery. 

Questioning the Photograph by Sarah Salomon: Washington Post Art Review by Mark Jenkins

The trees in Sarah Hood Salomon’s photographs often appear venerable or even invincible. But trees are chopped down all the time, sometimes to b emade into paper, the substance on which photos are most often printed.
This fraught connection links the objects, not all of which can be described as pictures, in Salomon’s “Questioning the Photograph.” The Multiple Exposures Gallery show features black-and-white prints that have been cut, scratched, crumpled or shredded.

The artist’s inspiration was the imminent destruction of woods on land that’s about to be developed. Salomon represents the trees’ vulnerability by slicing a photo of them and arranging the pieces into a shrublike sculpture
fixed by clear resin. Other pictures are reduced to ribbons or even dust and embedded within transparent blocks or orbs. Thus preserved, the pictures forfeit their essential character, just as trees lose their nature when turned
into firewood or newsprint.

If demolition is the point of most of these pieces, the two scratched photos have a different feel. Salomon carves flurries of fine lines into the pictures in ways that complement rather than question the original composition. In
“Counterpoint,” the incisions suggest the effect of wind, giving the photo a kinetic quality. While Salomon pointedly embalms many of her images of trees, this picture is swirlingly alive.

Sarah Hood Salomon: Questioning the Photograph Through June 30 at Multiple Exposures Gallery, Torpedo Factory, 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. multipleexposuresgallery.com. 703-683-2205.

Washington City Paper Art Review by Louis Jacobson

The recent arc of Sarah Hood Salomon’s art began with ethereal photographs of trees, then morphed into the interaction between mutually encroaching swaths of nature and the human-built environment. Her current exhibit at Multiple Exposures Gallery allows man-made structures to replace flora entirely, as Salomon destroys some of the nature photographs she’s made to use them as fodder for resin-encased sculptures. If you look closely at the traces of Salomon’s “purposefully scratched, cut and puréed” photographs, you might make out a shading of light or dark here and there. Mostly, though, you’ll see linguine-shaped strips arranged into organic forms that suggest curled hairs, hanging moss, feathers, and brushy plant matter. Some of Salomon’s more intriguing works use thin, parallel cross sections of photographic remnants suspended within clear, hardened cubes, as if they were prepared microscopic slides. Even more compelling are Salomon’s experiments with “sanded” detritus from photographs, with dust either encased in clear, snow globe-like spheres or piled up in empty lucite boxes like a miniature experiment in land art. Artistically, it’s not clear that the sculptural transformations are more remarkable than Salomon’s original photographs were on their own. (I chose her tree photography as the second-best photography exhibit in D.C. of 2019.) But the process of altering her images is undeniably poignant. As Salomon writes in her artist’s statement, the trees she photographed were about to be uprooted for development, and by sending her images through the blender, she makes sure that they “can’t be reconstructed, just as landscapes altered by humans can’t be reassembled.”

Sarah Hood Salomon’s Questioning the Photograph runs through June 30 at Multiple Exposures Gallery, 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. Daily, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. multipleexposuresgallery.com.

Questioning the Photograph, Solo Exhibit by Sarah Hood Salomon

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present QUESTIONING THE PHOTOGRAPH, a solo exhibition of sculptural photography by Sarah Hood Salomon. The exhibition is on view at Multiple Exposures Gallery, May 21-June 30, 2024. The gallery is open from 11am-5pm daily. 

The photographic sculptures in QUESTIONING THE PHOTOGRAPH began as trees on properties that are about to be developed — the trees will soon be destroyed. In response to their imminent destruction, Salomon purposefully scratched, cut and puréed her images. The photographic remnants were then covered with resin to form sculptural objects. The original images are unrecognizable and can’t be reconstructed, just as landscapes altered by humans can’t be reassembled. 

Salomon’s photographs and sculptures are a celebration of woodlands, but she also feels great sadness about the changes humans bring to our planet. She hopes this work will help others become more aware of the beauty and fragility of the forest and its inhabitants.

MEET THE ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES
Sarah will be at Multiple Exposures Gallery from 11am-5pm on the following dates: May 23, June 8,9, 29, and 30. We invite you to stop in to see the exhibition and speak with Sarah about her vision and artistic process. Multiple Exposures Gallery is located on the 3rd Floor in the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA. [map]

Artist Information
Website: www.sarahhoodsalomon.com
Instagram: @sarahhoodsalomon