Artist talk and gallery walk through with Katherine Westerhout

2/13/2010 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Artist Reception: Saturday, January 16, 6-8 PM

Electric Works is pleased to announce Rust Belt, a solo show of recent photographs by Katherine Westerhout. Expanding on the work from her last exhibition, which focused on the deterioration of Detroit, once among America's wealthiest cities, Westerhout has taken Buffalo, NY and Philadelphia, PA, as well as Detroit into examination. Haunting, desolate, photographs of a once-bustling American industrial and prison landscapes populate the gallery. All photographed with only available light, these scale photographs envelope with view and transport into Westerhout's world. Coincident with the exhibition will be the January release of a significant article in COLOR Magazine, and a rerun of the PBS SPARK feature of Katherine at work in Oakland's 16th Street Train Station.

Katherine received her B.A. in Art/Photography from San Francisco State University and began exhibiting in the late 1990's. She has shown widely in the United States and abroad, and is represented by Electric Works in San Francisco. Among her collectors are the San Jose Museum of Art and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.

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