“Unseen/Seen” at Shari Brownfield Fine Art, Jackson, Wyoming
I am honored to be a part of the exhibit Unseen/Seen at Shari Brownfield Fine Art in Jackson Wyoming through June 2023, and pleased to be hanging in the space with photographic artist Anne Muller, whose artworks are derived from her life in Wyoming, celebrating its color and natural beauty. Shari has selected several of my hand-made black-and-white landscape prints, which I have detailed below, as for many, it is a long road to Wyoming! Please contact the gallery for any inquiries.
This image. Mammoth Pass, was made during a snowstorm in 2001 when I was touring the Eastern Sierras in search of winter images. The temperature was in the single digits which required keeping my Hasselblad on the heater outlet lest the shutter freeze closed.
On the left is Julie’s Island, so named because she drew me away from the evening campfire insisting I see what she had. When I did, I was able to capture this disappearing redwood island before it was engulfed by the rising Pacific fog bank. The image was made during one of my many assignments commissioned by Sempervirens Fund when we were raising support for the Butano Crossing acquisition on the California coast in 1993. The image to the right is Cattail Ballet which I shot in 2010 while a guest at Stanford University’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve near the home in which I was raised in Woodside California, showing the delicate dance between cattails at season’s end and the still surface of San Francisquito Creek.
Moving left to right we first have Fairy Ring from my 1995 book The Unseen Peninsula. I took this photograph under a commission by the Peninsula Open Space Trust in 1991, when they were raising funds to add the Phleger Estate to the San Mateo County Park System. The next piece is titled Coronado Trail and was made in the winter of 1999 when I was on a road trip/photo safari in southern Arizona. Named for the Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado who explored this area in 1540 on a quest to find the Seven Cities of Cíbola, this highway is among the most beautiful in Arizona and is one of the least traveled federal highways in the west. Next is a piece originally without a title, but now known as January Snow. This vintage print, made within a year of the negative’s creation in 1998, was made on a special paper that hasn’t been available for over 10 years. The photograph was made at the bottom of Yosemite Valley at the equestrian center in January of that year. To its right is Buckeye Creek, rendered in the Eastern Sierras with Spring’s late-day light glinting off the early runoff. Last is a 7-hour exposure under a full moon with stars wheeling around the north star centered on a bare tree at the Homolovi ruins in northern Arizona, Homolovi Night.
Shari Brownfield and Robert Buelteman
On the center wall of the gallery, we have 2- 30x30” gelatin silver prints framed to 42x40” in black-stained wood frames. On the left is Crystal Fen, a celebration of the wheel of life, and on the right is Reeds and Water, a photograph of a familiar location and patiently waited on for 8 years until the conditions were right. Both of these images are from my 1996 book, The Unseen Peninsula.
Please direct any inquiries should to the gallery owner, Shari Brownfield.