The Keeping Time review ran last Friday in the Boston Globe and it was a good one! Yippee!

Click here or above to read it.

The perspicacious Mark Feeney has some incredible insights as always. Here are some of my favorite Feeney phrases (the last Morris Louis one is truly super):

Among the virtues of “Keeping Time: Cycle and Duration in Contemporary Photography,” which runs at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University through Jan. 25, is the reminder it brings that time is not just the ocean photography splashes in but also the spray that it raises.

All photographs are, so to speak, sun-singed. …Think of the process as a visual equivalent of distressing a surface. Where a photograph captures an instant in time, McCaw’s techniques indicate time’s ongoing effects on that instant.

As the sun casts shadows from wine bottles, drinking glasses, and the like, Cummins traces the outlines of those shadows in colored inks. Meal concluded, she photographs the chromatic accumulation. Visually, it’s like having Morris Louis as your waiter.

Keeping Time is online at BU Today! 

Click here or above to listen to Kimberly Cornuelle’s wonderful audio interview with Sharon Harper along with a slideshow of images from the show.  Thanks Kimberly and Sharon!

The show also got another online bit of press from the art critic at Yankee Magazine.  Click here to read Edgar Allen Beem’s preview.

You can also click here to see pics from the opening reception and exhibition installation on our Flickr site.

Join us this Thursday, November 6th from 5:30 - 7:30pm, for the opening reception for Keeping Time!

The gallery is painted a beautiful Benjamin Moore historical color (Templeton Gray) and the work is on the walls. Today, I finish the labels and clean up.  All of the artists are great and I am very proud of them and the show. If you are not in town, you can poke around the special online component (which includes an essay, statements, and all images) and wait for our flickr images to be posted. A caveat, with work ranging from Harper’s 40 x 50 inch prints to McCaw’s one-of-a-kind burned paper negatives, the work is so much more in person.

ABOUT THE SHOW: This group exhibition brings together photographers who deal with concepts of time, duration, and cycles—human, celestial, and photographic—in their work. From its beginnings, photography has been lauded as nature capturing itself and as a method with which to stop, pause, preserve, and contemplate time. In creating their work, each artist in Keeping Time uses a different idea or aesthetic means to capture time and bookend or collect their exposures.Artists include Stuart Allen (TX), Erika Blumenfeld (TX), Rebecca Cummins (WA), Sharon Harper (MA), Chris McCaw (CA), Matthew Pillsbury (NY), Byron Wolfe (CA).

ABOVE IMAGE: Sharon Harper (Cambridge, MA), Moon Studies and Star Scratches, No. 6, June - September 2004, Saratoga Springs, New York; Middlesex, Vermont; Johnson, Vermont; Eden Mills, Vermont; Greensboro, North Carolina, Digital C-print from 8×10 transparency, 50 x 40 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Roepke, Cologne