Free Lecture and Reception

MCG ARTS presents JANYCE ERLICH-MOSS

Free Lecture and Reception: Thursday, July 29, 6-8 pm at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild

Slide Show/Lecture begins at 6 pm

For almost two decades, Janyce Erlich-Moss has been photographically exploring the landscape and man’s relationship with it. Although landscape photography has traditionally been regarded as representational, her work is an ongoing effort to challenge that assumption. She uses a variety of methods to alter the viewpoint and make the familiar into something strange thereby emphasizing the essence, rather than the physical nature of the subject.

Turning towards the urban landscape Moss began shooting around the city of Philadelphia with a variety of pinhole cameras (known to Leonardo da Vinci and other artists as the “camera obscura”) that have neither lenses, nor the capacity to selectively focus.

In Dark Matters Moss combines this early pre-photographic technique with modern digital processing. This combination permits both spontaneous image making in the field and creative manipulations in the computer. The resultant images are sensed, much like a vague memory, and imbue the viewer with the recognition of a given place rendered disquietingly unfamiliar.

Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild – 1815 Metropolitan Street – North Side – 412-322-1773 – www.manchesterguild.org