Eric William Carroll | Plato’s Home Movies | Main Gallery

Eric William Carroll’s exhibition titled, “Plato’s Home Movies,” consists of a long blueprint photogram mural (60 ft. in length), a video projection piece, and a C-print photograph. Challenging the belief that photographs are meant to preserve moments or memories forever, Eric uses early photographic techniques from a time when light sensitive paper was used but the ability to “fix” and archive an image was not yet achieved. His subject is light itself and the ephemeral shadows it creates on the blueprint paper as it falls through trees in the forest. The show will change and fade to white throughout the course of the exhibition allowing the viewer a new experience, and the opportunity for a new memory, each visit.

www.ericwilliamcarroll.com

Susan Lynn Smith | On Second Thought | Side Gallery

On Second Thought depicts places that may not suggest a reason to linger. Upon closer examination, these environments that are often overlooked, contain subtle incongruities. The photographs reveal a peculiarity and anxiety that is present within the spaces we inhabit. A tension develops between ordinary perception and ironic estrangement; each setting feels familiar, but possesses a heightened sense of the surreal. The series invites speculative connections between images, despite one’s understanding of them as disparate locations. There is a sense of unease created in these tentative narrative threads, which implies an impending drama or one just missed.

www.susanlynnsmith.com