Memorial Day Monday May 28th 10 AM

Please join us to honor our soldiers and listen to music by the Davis High School Madrigal Choir, the Davis Children's Chorale, and the Davis Brass Ensemble. We will gather in front of our Veteran's Memorial Fountain at 10 AM for this free event; chairs and shade structures will be set up.

Gallery 1855 at the Davis Cemetery Presents:

May: Pete Eckert

Internationally known artist and founder of the Blind Photographers' Guild

To engage with modern art is to ask more of the canvas and the lens than a mere mimicry of reality. Art in the 21st century both undermines our reality and forms our reality. Peter Eckert, co-founder of the Blind Photographers Guild, flips this notion on its head with his use of the photographic, a medium that favors the realities of the sighted. His work, and the manner in which it is composed, bluntly and beautifully asks the viewer to imagine sight through his reality of non-sight.

Abstracted from the biographical, Eckert’s images stand alone as skillful examples of the use of multiple exposures; each image is a combination of long and short duration exposures on a single negative. Eckert’s figures, always distorted, either by erratic, blazing colors, or crossed by black and white, call to mind static electricity, though they are never static. Rather, they are figures stalked by their own movements traced effulgently in light. Ordinary actions, such as fixing a meal (“The Kitchen”), appear mortally ephemeral and strange as the exposure amplifies every miniscule, personal movement. Eckert’s figures are enticingly real yet mythic characters who embody both profane, ecstatic frenzy (“Electroman”) and sacred, ethereal grandeur (“Hollywood”).

The magnetism of these photographs lies in their summoning of senses other than sight. Eckert’s work demands that the viewer transmute sound, taste, touch, and smell into a radical synthesis expressed through the visual. The result is highly evocative. Energy and fire are prevalent, drawing on the viewer’s fear as well as our innate curiosity about those things which we know as both dangerous and life-giving. This constant interplay between the human body and the physical effects of forces, seen and unseen, gives great depth to Eckert’s work. He makes visually manifest phenomena which, in our sight oriented reality, cannot be seen. To see in a photo the details of unperceived energy and heat paired with the ecstatic human, bound both to routine and to revelation, is truly astonishing.

Experience this fascinating work for yourself. You are warmly invited to join us on Sunday, May 13th where you can meet Pete Eckert during our free open house and reception from 1 P.M. to 4 P.M. at Gallery 1855 in the Davis Cemetery District office, 820 Pole Line Road, Davis CA 95618. Eckert’s work will be on display for public viewing throughout the month of May, Monday through Friday, 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. Please check www.daviscemetery.org or call (530) 756-7807 for more details; Pete Eckert's website is www.peteeckert.com/.

Length of show: May 1, 2012 - May 31, 2012
Open house: May 13, 2012 from 1 PM to 4 PM

For more information about Gallery 1855, please go to www.gallery1855.weebly.com

Our Vision

*To strengthen to cemetery as an inviting space for remembrance, contemplation, and healing.

*To enhance the cemetery's ability to memorialize the history of Davis, its people, and the original Central Valley landscape through art, architecture and design.

*To maintain the Davis Cemetery District as a center of local history, celebrating the diverse cultural heritage of the people of Davis.

*To create an attractive environment that will encourage people to come and enjoy art, nature, and civic history.

*To enhance the existing ecological function of the cemetery as an open green space and a sanctuary for native plant and animal life.

*To reduce the use of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides while maintaining a healthy living landscape.

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THE LAST SWALE IN DAVIS


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