Show Archive:
- Caesura
- Georgia to Georgia
- Bloomsday:
A James Joyce Celebration - Beyond Krog Street:
Urban Portraits by Doug Barlow - Velcro Show 2006
- Continuum - New Portraits by Bryan Meltz
- Poets & Writers: An Evening of Poetry
- Home and the War
- Unconquered: Images of Cuba
- Here and Now
- Raging in the Gloom: Jack Kerouac Birthday Tribute
- Pelusa
- The Bridal Show
- Bloomsday: A James Joyce Celebration
- The Velcro Show 2007
- RockShow
- In Our Midst: Photographs of Candler Park
- Voices Carry 4: An Evening of Poetry & Spoken Word
- Strange True Tales: Photographs by Joeff Davis
- Pedestal Magazine Reading Event
- Translations
- ExLucis 2008
- International Women's Day Poetry Reading
- A Thousand Words
- Body/Text Project
- Bloomsday: A James Joyce Celebration
- Sorrowful Tunes from a Sunny Land:
Photographs from the Republic of Georgia - Sorrowful Tunes of Sunny Land
- Velcro Show 2008
- New York, New York: Photographs by Sylvia Plachy
- The American War: Photographs by Al Rockoff
- 3rd Anniversary Rent Party and Inauguration Celebration
- Bloodline, AIDS and Family: Images by Kristen Ashburn
- Durham Stories: Not Hell But You Can See It From Here
- The Dream of Life: Photographs by Dorothy O'Connor and Jenny Williamson
- The Path Worn In The Grass: A Marathon Reading of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself
- Rock Show 2: Rock 'n' Roll Photography
- Eminent Domain: The Piñon Canyon Project
- The Cowboys vs. The Army
- Communion: A Found Photo Show
- Velcro Show 2009
- 4 For Four: 4th Anniversary Show
- Photographs by Dorothy O'Connor
- Talking Back To The Muse
- May Day Art Party for Haiti
Body/Text Project
The Nude has been integral in the development of Visual Art throughout its history, and the viewer's response to the Nude, perhaps more than to any other subject in Art, is influenced by a complexity of attitudes and opinions, both personal and conditional. The Female Nude, in particular, seems capable of eliciting a myriad of reactions, dependent upon, among other factors, the gender and sexual orientation of both the artist and the viewer.
As a gallery owner, I often receive nude photography for consideration and I'm ambivalent to most of it. Rarely does the work seem to transcend traditional glamour photography and I am generally suspicious of its intentions and effects. However, I found Darren's Body/Text Project immediately interesting. His photographs are intricately staged and exquisitely lit. The interplay of light and shadow, word and flesh, as well as his merging of the political and the deeply personal, all combine to create a compelling and exacting body of work.-Ron Hughes/Composition Gallery
I created the Body/Text Project as a means of using technology to explore how traditional media and artistic exploitation of the human form separates thought from flesh. By turning skin into a screen and projecting text onto it, I seek to reunite the intellectual and the physical in an aesthetically bold context. My aim is to render beauty and to celebrate human beings as thinking animals. These photographs are not photoshopped or manipulated. Each one represents months of painstaking trial and error in overcoming the inherent difficulties of projecting, then photographically rendering text onto human skin. I consider this work a significant conceptual step forward in my development as an artist.-Darren Saravis
As a gallery owner, I often receive nude photography for consideration and I'm ambivalent to most of it. Rarely does the work seem to transcend traditional glamour photography and I am generally suspicious of its intentions and effects. However, I found Darren's Body/Text Project immediately interesting. His photographs are intricately staged and exquisitely lit. The interplay of light and shadow, word and flesh, as well as his merging of the political and the deeply personal, all combine to create a compelling and exacting body of work.-Ron Hughes/Composition Gallery
I created the Body/Text Project as a means of using technology to explore how traditional media and artistic exploitation of the human form separates thought from flesh. By turning skin into a screen and projecting text onto it, I seek to reunite the intellectual and the physical in an aesthetically bold context. My aim is to render beauty and to celebrate human beings as thinking animals. These photographs are not photoshopped or manipulated. Each one represents months of painstaking trial and error in overcoming the inherent difficulties of projecting, then photographically rendering text onto human skin. I consider this work a significant conceptual step forward in my development as an artist.-Darren Saravis