Extended Passage of Time:
through Saturday, January 18, 2014
Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces. 575-541-2137
Reception: Friday, December 6, 2013 from 5 to 7 pm
New Mexico is home to more than its fair share of otherworldly places — the looming cliffs of Ghost Ranch in Abiqui, the conical Tent Rocks formations near Jemez Springs and, of course, Roswell. But White Sands National Monument in Turarosa Basin is beyond otherworldly — when standing among the cool, snow-white dunes, watching the subtle shifts between sand and wind, light and shadow, time itself becomes an element of the landscape. Santa Fe-based photographer Gunnar Plake capitalizes on this sensation in the his White Sands photographs. (more…)
Read Moreby Michael Abatemarco for The New Mexican
Photography has the power to freeze the world, capturing the view of a landscape in perfect stillness. The viewer’s sense of active participation in the environment when looking at such a photograph is subdued: both the image and viewer are still. What photographer Gunnar Plake has achieved in The Light Within, his second series of Grand Canyon images, challenges the idea of landscape photography as a vehicle for evoking the nuances of the still image; (more…)
Read Moreby Maria Porges
Maria Porges: The most unique aspect of your photographs is the first thing we notice: they portray a state of motion. How did you develop your distinctive technique? (more…)
Read Moreby David Levi Strauss
One of the things I miss most about living on the plains is the way that landscape looks at high speed. Landscape and driving fast came to me together, as a package. (more…)
by Sharyn Udall
Gunnar Plake, with camera in hand, has ranged over much of the West finding fresh approaches to landscape. His decision to photograph the Grand Canyon was not taken lightly. (more…)
