Please join us for an artist reception for the opening of the newest exhibition, "A Long Journey into Night: Expectations and Clearings in the Photography of Nicole Ahland". Through the study of light suffusing dark interior spaces, Ahland creates a metaphor for the transformation of the internal human experience. Just as the eye adapts to darkness, one’s perceptions are tempered during the long wait for the clarity of dawn. Ahland lays out how viewers’ expectations are interrupted – hope-filled clearings of vision are variously mollified and magnified by an infiltrating, mute brilliance. One is invited to explore textured, often obscured enchantments, as the journey leads into a flood of transcendence.
The photographs included in the exhibition stem from two bodies of work produced between 2010 and 2015. These night-long exposures were made in two neighboring inner-city churches in Cologne, Germany: the Gothic parish of Saint Peter’s and the endowed Romanesque St. Cecilia’s, which now houses the Schnütgen Museum of Medieval Art. By hosting Ahland’s work, the Manresa Gallery invites those spaces to enliven a meditational dialogue within another church venue.
Light food and refreshments will be served.
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The photographs included in the exhibition stem from two bodies of work produced between 2010 and 2015. These night-long exposures were made in two neighboring inner-city churches in Cologne, Germany: the Gothic parish of Saint Peter’s and the endowed Romanesque St. Cecilia’s, which now houses the Schnütgen Museum of Medieval Art. By hosting Ahland’s work, the Manresa Gallery invites those spaces to enliven a meditational dialogue within another church venue.
Light food and refreshments will be served.
Please join us for an artist reception for the opening of the newest exhibition, "A Long Journey into Night: Expectations and Clearings in the Photography of Nicole Ahland". Through the study of light suffusing dark interior spaces, Ahland creates a metaphor for the transformation of the internal human experience. Just as the eye adapts to darkness, one’s perceptions are tempered during the long wait for the clarity of dawn. Ahland lays out how viewers’ expectations are interrupted – hope-filled clearings of vision are variously mollified and magnified by an infiltrating, mute brilliance. One is invited to explore textured, often obscured enchantments, as the journey leads into a flood of transcendence.
The photographs included in the exhibition stem from two bodies of work produced between 2010 and 2015. These night-long exposures were made in two neighboring inner-city churches in Cologne, Germany: the Gothic parish of Saint Peter’s and the endowed Romanesque St. Cecilia’s, which now houses the Schnütgen Museum of Medieval Art. By hosting Ahland’s work, the Manresa Gallery invites those spaces to enliven a meditational dialogue within another church venue.
Light food and refreshments will be served.
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The photographs included in the exhibition stem from two bodies of work produced between 2010 and 2015. These night-long exposures were made in two neighboring inner-city churches in Cologne, Germany: the Gothic parish of Saint Peter’s and the endowed Romanesque St. Cecilia’s, which now houses the Schnütgen Museum of Medieval Art. By hosting Ahland’s work, the Manresa Gallery invites those spaces to enliven a meditational dialogue within another church venue.
Light food and refreshments will be served.
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Saint Ignatius Church
650 Parker Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118
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