Tom Thomson Art Gallery

Donald Woodman The Selling of the West March 5 to May 2 2010 Opening Reception: Friday March 5 at 7pm Sponsored by: The Sun Times and Best Western Inn on the Bay

Landscape is a subject to which Woodman has repeatedly returned to over the years. The photo tradition he comes from has been characterized as the 'Ansel Adam School' of the idealized landscape. Of course, nowadays, one has to travel to areas with sparse populations that are inaccessible by motorized vehicle in order to find unobstructed vistas like those in Adam's photographs. The works on view record the landscape as it is; being sold, closed off and/or developed complete with trash, weeds, roads and powerlines.  In doing so he has had to shed the mantle of the tradition of landscape photography instead revealing the real world we live in. 

Please join us on Friday March 5 starting at 7pm for the opening reception.