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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Blue Sky artist shows water works
“Taking to Water: Recent Photographs,” an exhibition by Michigan artist Kaz McCue, will open Friday, July 1, with a free public reception from 5 to 8 p.m. at 33 N. Main St. on Courthouse Square in Dayton.
The solo show will continue through July 22. The gallery, a former Roly Poly sandwich shop, is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
McCue is one of five resident artists for the 2011 Blue Sky Project in Dayton, which matches international artists with local students who collaborate on original work.
Although he is better known for his installations and sculptures, this solo show explores the relationship between the dynamics of water, light and photography. The resulting images are abstractions that sometimes appear more like drawings than paintings.
“I have always had a love of the landscape, but during the past several years I have become increasingly interested in water as a visual element. As I continued to photograph the landscape, I found myself focusing in on the water until there was no landscape left — only water,” McCue said.
“This project gave me the opportunity to take everything I had been doing in the field into a controlled studio environment and really explore. Water is the most abundant compound on the earth and touches our lives in so many ways. For me, this work represents a kind of emotional and psychological landscape where water was no longer the subject of the work but rather a vehicle for expression.”
To follow McCue’s work this summer in Dayton, go to blueskykaz.blogspot.com.
For more about the Blue Sky Project, visit blueskydayton.org.
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