Photography Exhibition
by Noele Lusano and James Minton

Show opens: February 5, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Art Murmur opening March 5, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Gallery open Saturdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Show Closes: March 13, 5:00 p.m.

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At times, an unexpected light shines on outer terrain and reveals to us a reflection of the inner world. Employing an unusual combination of lush imagery with a graphic and often austere compositional sense, photographic artists Noele Lusano and James Minton bring us snapshots of these illuminated moments.

Noele Lusano is a San Francisco-based photographer and graphic designer whose recent works focus primarily on urban and natural spaces as they relate to the unexpressed inner world.  Her work draws heavily on the ascetic visual sense of postmodern Berlin, inspired as well by the texture-laden soundscapes of Tim Hecker, Alva Noto and Philip Jeck.

"I'm interested in the things that lie just beyond the frame, pieces of cities perhaps imagined glimpsed through train windows for a second before passing, the feeling of one avenue as opposed to another one beside, the quiet, jumbled static of cities and transit, those scents not soon forgotten ... "

James Minton earned his BA in (analog) photography nearly a decade ago, just on the cusp of the digital revolution, but -- dismayed by these new, pixelated winds of change -- promptly abandoned the medium to pursue other goals. Upon meeting Noele in early 2009, he was inspired by her work to reawaken his dormant enthusiasm for photography.

Noele and James both score as INTPs on the Meyers-Briggs Personality Inventory.

This show is a collaborative, thematically-unified presentation of new works, curated by the artists themselves.