Ellen Jantzen

Apotheosis

2013

Rebecca Skinner’s “Run” is part of a her texture series taking an up-close look at rusted and/or weathered metal. With tones of blue and purple, this 12 x 18 inch abstract color phot...

Rebecca Skinner’s “Rip” is a 12 x 18 inch color photo on metal that is part of her texture series, which takes an up-close look at rusted and/or weather...

Rebecca Skinner’s “Rough Terrain” is part of a her texture series taking an up-close look rusted and/or weathered metal. This abstract image is mostly earth tones with a touch of blu...

'8.31.15_4:45:54' 2017 by Susan Wides. Dye sublimation aluminum, Ed. of 5, 60 x 40 in. / Frame: 60.75 x 41 in. This color photo features a clo...

This photograph is representative of two related series of mine that deal with humanity's impact on and relationship with the earth. This relationship is not sustainable. Lately, I have begun to dream of our tortured earth with the remains of our hubris drifting through space, mined to extinction. This work is an attempt to tear through the ugliness of the world we have made, through the blindness of our voracious appetite to the vastness beyond, where beauty cares not for our perception of it. As Robinson Jeffers wrote: “The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heartbreaking beauty/ Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.” -- William Lesch

This contemporary photograph by Peter Mendelson pictures a close-up, birds-eye view of pool steps descending into a pool. The cropped composition depicts a textured, rounded white st...