Gallery Saintonge is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibit, Journey’s End, with work by Lucy Capehart.
Capehart has been capturing images of roadside memorials in the Western United States since 2001. The large color photographs, straightforward shots of memorial crosses and automobile accident remnants, become things to hold onto from places and moments otherwise ungraspable – detritus of the deceased.
Struck by the contrast of the horror of these terrible accidents in the beauty of the landscape, Capehart explores subjects of tragedy and loss by documenting this clash between the tranquil, desolate landscape and the ornamental, manmade crosses. Like much of her work, Capehart looks at the way people live through the evidence they leave behind – which is both strikingly personal and private as well as sublimely ordinary. The places inhabited and the things found become charged with a power and spirit of the beings that occupied them.
Lucy Capehart has been doing photographic work for over 20 years, much of a documentary nature. She has assisted with and curated exhibits for over ten years for various organizations, including Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and The University of Montana’s Museum of Art and Culture in Missoula, Montana. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine and Local Heroes Changing America. Lucy Capehart lives in Missoula, Montana.
Age Group: All Ages Venue: Gallery Saintonge Address: 216 north higgins avenue Phone: 406.543.0171 ext.113
