Feature Articles


September Issue 2000

Light Factory in Charlotte, NC, Will Offer New Shows

The Light Factory in Charlotte, NC, will be hosting three new exhibits from Oct. 7 through Dec. 22. They are: Peter Goin: Humanature, Rob Amberg, in the Members Portfolio Gallery and Seoungho Cho: Salt Creek in Salon@TLF.

Peter Goin: Humanature is a traveling exhibition by Reno, NV, photographer Peter Goin which presents work commissioned by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in Durham, NC, about human impact in the natural world. The artist-in-residence fellowship at the Center for Documentary Studies allowed Goin to explore themes of land usage, pesticides and pollution, genetic engineering and resource consumption in NC. Goin's images of albino rainbow trout; artificial forests; human-made tornadoes; artificial beaches; and human-made trees and rocks urge the viewer to consider the value of nature.

Goin is a professor of art at the University of Nevada, Reno, NV. He is the recipient of a 1997 Artist-in-Residency Fellowship at the Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR, as well as a recipient of the 1982 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Goin will give a gallery lecture at the Light Factory on Oct. 12 at 6:30pm.

The Light Factory presents its first ever Members Portfolio Gallery exhibition by presenting works by member and photographer, Rob Amberg, who has been photographing the seven-year construction of the Interstate 26 Corridor as is cuts through his hometown of rural Madison County, NC. This is the largest earth-moving project ever to take place in the state of NC. The project documents a shift in a one time indigenous environment and its effects on the people, history and land. Amberg displays everything from the dislocation of the people, community and economy of Madison County, to photographs of austere landscapes soon to be depressed by roadside clearances. The corridor will eventually join the Ohio Valley and the South Atlantic Coastal region.

Amberg is a freelance documentary photographer who lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina. His work has been nationally published and exhibited. He was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990.

Salon @ TLF will host the screening of Seoungho Cho's Salt Creek. Salt Creek (color video, 1998, 16 minutes) creates a lyrical and visually striking meditation of the elegant yet harsh terrain of Death Valley. Using a soundtrack written for Salt Creek, Cho folds representations of a cold, beautiful landscape into images of video static, water sluicing out of a tap, and surveillance views from one office tower into another.

For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or call the gallery at 704/333-9755, by e-mail at (tlf@webserve.net) or on the web at (http://www.lightfactory.org).

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