Mesquite Flats

Description

Mesquite Flats is a starkly beautiful monochrome photograph, where the late afternoon sun orchestrates a dramatic interplay of light and shadow. These creeping shadows, deep and substantial, carve across the undulating dunes, creating a sculpted landscape that emphasizes their organic forms. In a powerful visual dialogue, these intense shadows push back against the brilliant sunlight, generating a high-contrast scene that strips away color to reveal essential textures and shapes.

Within this stark panorama, the solitary existence of a chaparral bush becomes a focal point, the only tangible sign of life in the vast expanse, a testament to endurance against the elemental forces of sun and sand.

Gallery Exhibitions & Awards for “Mesquite Flats“

2024 The Artists’ Gallery, “Summertime: Some Like it Hot”
2023 Kehler Liddell Gallery “Light” March
2023 Huntington Beach Art Center “Centered on the Center” January
2022 PhotoPlace Gallery “Monochrome” October
2022 Monovision Awards – Honorable Mention
2021 International Photography Awards – Honorable Mention
2021 Las Lagunas “Open Theme”
2021 SFVACC “Artopia”
2021 A SmithGallery “open theme | unbound”
2021 WPE Awards – Silver Badge Landscape Photography

Edition Details

Photographs are printed in limited editions (no more than 25 total will be printed) and
each archival pigment print is individually signed, dated and numbered by the artist.

• 10 x 15 Edition of 12
• 20 x 30 Edition of 8
• 32 x 48 Edition of 5