Dakota Spirit Diminished: A Photographic Exhibition by Joshua Sean
Opening Friday, January 13th. 7-11pm
Join us at the Sacred Gallery on Friday the 13th of January 2012 for the NYC debut
of “Dakota Spirit Diminished.” The exhibition features selected works from the portfolio
of Joshua Sean. The reception will feature sixty fully-framed photographic pieces of
vivid South Dakota landscapes with distorted phantasms of mankind.
The event is free and all are invited. The Sacred Gallery is located on the
northeast corner of Broadway and Canal in Manhattan, New York City. The entire
exhibition will be available for viewing January 13 through January 30, check
www.sacredgallerynyc.com for gallery hours. See you on Friday, January 13!
Artist Statement:
“Dakota Spirit Diminished” is the selected works of Joshua Sean from his freshmen
years as a photographer. During this period Joshua developed his photographic eye by
documenting the vivid South Dakota landscapes with distorted phantasms of mankind.
Joshua illustrates the contrasts of South Dakota’s spectacular landscapes with the
encroachment of human construction, agriculture, architecture, and lighting. For
example: rural lighting, roads in the middle of nowhere, and remote locations inhabited
by man and machines all suggest at the nature/human contrasts. Joshua exploits the
dramatic blues and greys found from in the natural environments of dusk and dawn
with incandescent yellows and florescent green lighting provided by man to amplify
the nature/human contrasts. Longtime exposures at dusk and dawn also exaggerate and
distort nature and man by use color and ghostly phantasms of lights and characters.
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