Catharine Stebbins - Places

DRKRM. GALLERY
2121 San Fernando Road, Suite 3, Los Angeles, CA 90065, (323) 223-6867 www.drkrm.com - www/myspace.com/drkrmgallery
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image and artist statement: www.drkrm.com/stebbins.html

CATHARINE STEBBINS - PLACES
Opens Saturday, March 10. Reception for the artist: 7-10 pm.
Stebbins was inspired by childhood trips through the desert and views the world as a full-scale diorama framed by the rear window of a 1963 Chevy station wagon. She finds the geographically remote inspiring. The “right place” drives the tedium from her mind into a world of imagination and possibility. Vast, harsh deserts; dirt roads leading to unseen canyons; beautiful places that I know could also be dangerous, are like homing devices for me. Places where I feel insignificant yet powerful, connected, and wholly alive.” Her large scale color photographs create feelings of connectedness and ascendancy, anticipation and maybe a little dread. “Stebbins’ photographs are like a crime scene…without a body.” - - John Matkowski - curator, drkrm. Gallery. The show runs through April 14, 2007.