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I’ll be exhibiting again this year in a single-artist Project Space at the international contemporary art fair Art Santa Fe. The fair will be held for the first time in Santa Fe’s new “green” Convention Center just off the central plaza. Art Santa Fe is an annual juried event that brings together the work of contemporary artists in all media from galleries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States.
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In January my work was featured in the Susan Spiritus Gallery space at the Fine Art Dealers Association’s LOS ANGELES ART SHOW. It’s an annual juried event that brings together 110 galleries, both domestic and international, exhibiting work from all genres and periods—”from Rembrandt to Ruscha” as LAAS says in their description of the fair. It takes place in the downtown Los Angeles Convention Center.
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My traveling exhibit, “Robert Turner: Rare Places in a Rare Light” was hosted most recently by The G2 Gallery in Venice, California. It ran from September 22 through November 8, 2009. The gallery opened in March of 2008 in the bustling Abbot Kinney District in this beach community south of Santa Monica. My pictures showed very nicely in their space.
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In a revival of an historic Vietnamese craft tradition, an artisans’ project called La Than Imperial Embroidery has rendered one of my photographs, Alpenglow on Hurricane Ridge, in silk thread. The piece is 7 feet wide, took six needle workers over a year to execute, and utilizes hundreds of distinct thread dyes. It was on display recently as part of a two day La Than demonstration at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design.
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My traveling exhibit Robert Turner: Rare Places in a Rare Light opened April 10th at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in the museum’s John Bunker Sands Gallery. BBHC is a unique group of five themed museums under one roof at the eastern gateway to Yellowstone. They include the Whitney Gallery of Western Art and the Draper Museum of Natural History. Together they examine and interpret the human and natural history of the American West.
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At Photo LA in January 2009 I introduced a new body of work. While continuing to pursue the light on the land as always, I’ve begun exploring other ways to bring light, form, and color together to create what I hope are evocative images. The first several pieces in this new series were well received at the Los Angeles show. Two of the larger ones sold off the wall and I was relieved to find that most people who have followed my landscape work applauded this expansion into new genres.
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I travelled again this year to New Mexico for Art Santa Fe 2009—an international contemporary art fair. As in the previous two years, I had a single-artist “Project Space” sponsored by the Monroe Gallery of Photography. The fair is an annual juried event that brings together the work of contemporary artists in all media from galleries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States.
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In January my work was featured in the Susan Spiritus Gallery booth at the Los Angeles fine art photography fair, Photo LA. It’s a three day gathering of some 70 photography galleries, dealers, and publishers from around the world. There is a staggering number of images on view, from tiny 19th century daguerreotypes to wall-sized 21st century digital prints. It’s a fascinating, and sometimes overwhelming, look at the current state of photography and what the medium means to different people.
For the Boston Pops 2007 Spring Season I was commissioned by the orchestra to create a montage of ninety of my images to be projected on a forty-five foot wide screen above the Boston Symphony Hall stage during two performances of Dvorak’s New World Symphony.
I plan to produce a video of the sequence of images I used for the twelve minute Largo or slow movement of the symphony. I’ll release it on DVD in Standard, HD, and Blu-ray formats. This is going to take awhile, but I’ll announce it here when it’s available. I’ll put out an announcement to the mailing list when the time comes.
Watch this public affairs program profiling Robert Turner and his work. Produced by Cox Comm. Channel 4, San Diego.
A montage of photos was projected behind the orchestra in Boston Symphony Hall during the Boston Pops 2007 Spring Season.
Bob has embarked on a new body of work outside the landscape genre. The first images in the series can be seen here.
An audio guide to five photographs.
Posters available for purchase.
