Ephraim, Wis. (August 23, 2023) – The Hardy Gallery is pleased to present Rendering Intent[ions]: Contemporary Photoworks by Dan Cross, David Graham, and Terri Warpinski. The exhibit will be on view from September 1 through October 8, with an opening reception on Friday, September 1, 5:30-7 pm.
This exhibit examines photography as an artistic medium through the works of three artists who challenge traditional stereotypes of photography. By exploring identity, memory, time, and space their images focus on aesthetics rather than documentation, pushing the boundaries of the medium with unconventional techniques and subject matter.
Dan Cross presents his newest work “Dockside”, a series of photographs that reflect on his childhood summers spent in Door County. Cross lives year-round in West Jacksonport, WI, and owns Idea Gallery / Studio showcasing contemporary art. His work has been shown nationally and has won awards of excellence in several media. The most recent was at The Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay, WI where he was awarded the “Best of Show” Gerhard Miller Award of Excellence.
His academic training was attained at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Art Education, in addition to in-depth studies in photography, painting, and ceramics. Regionally his works are in the permanent collections of the John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, the Brown County Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay Engraving, De Pere, WI, and the Lawton Foundation, De Pere, WI.
David Graham is a photographer known for his documentary-style photographs of the American cultural landscape. He was born and lived in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, photographing extensively in that area and as much of the United States as possible. David married Terri Warpinski and moved to Wisconsin in 2021. Since that time, he has been occupied exploring and photographing the area in which he now lives.
A seasoned documentary photographer, Graham’s vast experience in working for major print publications such as The New York Times, Harper’s, Forbes, and Details magazines is evident in his sharply arranged compositions. His work is distinctive in his use of a large format 8×10 film camera creating bold, colorful, and witty images that result in large-scale prints. Graham does all he can to cover as many cities and states as possible, stepping into strangers’ lives and recording their homes, families, and passions.
Terri Warpinski explores the complex relationship between personal, cultural, and natural histories through her photographic-based mixed media. The works in this exhibition spring from her love of the land, particularly that of her home ground in Northeast Wisconsin, radiating outward from her birthplace in West Jacksonport.
This work is rooted in the histories and futures of our fragile ecosystem through an examination of land preserves (such as those of the Door County and the Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust), sanctuaries, conservation zones, and other locales that are undergoing a process of re-wilding and ecological recovery.
Working in a wide range of mixed media, all incorporating photography in some form, along with varieties of presentation methods from artist books to installation works, the artist asks the viewer to actively engage with the work – to take time and expend effort to discover, explore and question what they are seeing.
Over the last four decades, her various projects have taken her throughout the American West and Mexico, Australia, Western and Central Europe, the Middle East, and Iceland. Helen A. Harrison of The New York Times once wrote that: “(her work) is especially attuned to the often-subtle evidence of human impact on nature… (and) invite(s) speculation about the secrets that may be revealed by scrutiny and creative speculation.”
Her extensive exhibition record includes the Pingyao International Festival of Photography in China; the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem; Houston International Fotofest; the Center for Photography in Woodstock, New York; the University of the Arts in Philadelphia; and Camerawork in San Francisco. She was awarded a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Research Fellowship to Berlin for her project Death|s| trip in 2017.
Warpinski was distinguished as a Fulbright Senior Fellow to Israel in 2000-2001 and as Professor Emerita of Art in 2016 after a 32-year teaching and administrative career at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Terri was born in Door County and spent her school years in the Green Bay area, after graduate school in Iowa she lived and worked for most of her career in Oregon, relocating back to Wisconsin in 2018. She and her husband, David Graham, live in De Pere and own newARTSpace, an artist-driven, non-commercial gallery and event space.
This is the final exhibit of the Hardy Gallery’s exhibition schedule for the 2023 season. For more information about upcoming events please check out the Hardy’s website www.thehardy.org.
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