Craig Krull Gallery is pleased to announce its eleventh solo exhibition of Michael Kenna’s photographs. Recognized internationally for his atmospheric pictures of stillness and solitude, Kenna does not include people in his photographs because “they become too magnetic and suggest a more definitive relationship… I’m more attracted to artwork where space, and even subject matter are more mysterious and elusive than specific.” He also prefers making his photographs with long exposures in the early morning hours or in the evening and night. According to curator Peter Bunnell, this brings the work “even further into the realm of imagined time,” or as the artist describes it, a place where “time equalizes itself.” Kenna has consistently photographed at the intersection of nature and enduring creations of civilization, such as the gardens of André Le Nôtre, the monolithic heads of Easter Island, and the monastery of Mont Saint Michel. In his most recent body of work, he interprets another timeless meeting of the elements and history in Venice, Italy. In addition to the Venice work, Craig Krull Gallery will also feature photographs Kenna made of the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, which are also currently on view at the Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia.

    Concurrently, the gallery will present an exhibition of new paintings by Connie Jenkins entitled, Fossil Reef. These works represent a continuation of a series that the artist began about six years ago when she spent her first week on Santa Rosa Island with National Park biologists that were conducting intertidal monitoring studies on the Channel Islands. Most of the paintings in this exhibition are based on photographs of tide pools that Jenkins made over the past six years at Fossil Reef on the northwest side of the island. Although the artist might be identified as a photo-realist painter, she notes that the work is about “the perceptual interstice between abstraction and illusion—that particularity of the arrangement of shape and value and color that triggers pattern recognition.”

    Finally, the gallery will feature the photo-assemblage work of New Mexico artist, Matthew Chase-Daniel. Like the other two artists, Chase-Daniel engages with a given place for extended periods of time. His process of combining multiple images into grids results in a landscape of both detailed and distant perspectives captured over time. Intertidal zones are a recurrent subject for Chase-Daniel who compares his work to the experience of walking along the shore gathering shells and occasionally looking up at the horizon.