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August 31, 2005
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"Phantasmagoria" |
CUESTA COLLEGE
ART GALLERY PRESENTS “PHANTASMAGORIA” ON SEPTEMBER 23
Tired of being told what to think?
Come to your own conclusions at Doug Highland’s “Phantasmagoria”
exhibition, opening Friday, September 23, from 5:30-8:00 p.m. in the
Cuesta College San Luis Obispo Campus Art Gallery. Highland, a
Full-time Photography and Art Instructor at Cuesta, will be present to
discuss his large photo-murals showing grisly masqueraders, stuffed
deer, and a living statue of liberty. Highland will conduct a enactment
of processes used for his photographic mural work at 7:30 p.m. that same
evening.
In Highland’s exhibition, which
runs through November 10th, “nostalgia and contemporary concerns meet to
question what is fact and what is fiction in our present time,” he said.
His work combines traditional, non-silver, and digital photographic
processes. While immersed in digital technology, he views it with an
artist’s detachment. “My concerns are for people’s disconnection within
our everyday world with its ever-increasing pace and reliance on
technology. I feel that this disconnect is at the root of social and
ecological problems.”
Highland, whose roots include both
fine art and commercial photography, has taught at Cal Poly, San Luis
Obispo, the University of Arizona, Lake Tahoe Community College and Alan
Hancock College. His work has been exhibited at many venues throughout
the Southwest and California, including the Center for Creative
Photography and the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson.
This event is free and open to the
public. Cuesta College Art gallery programs are generously supported by
a grant from the Promotional Coordinating Committee of the City of San
Luis Obispo. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For
further information call the Gallery at 805-546-3202.
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