Opening reception Thur, May 10, 5:30-8pm; Exhibition May 10 - June 30, 2018
Several years ago, Seth Tane hopped a barbed wire fence off State Route 14 near Dallesport, Washington, searching for just the right place to site a subway station. Surveying the rocky landscape, he took dozens of photographs, all of which he scrutinized back at his Portland studio.
The daylight in one of the pictures perfectly matched the angle of the sun in another photo he'd once taken of a subway stop in downtown New York. Seamlessly blending the disparate images into a single scene, he created a large painting in which New Yorkers appear to emerge from the F Line into a desolate stretch of the Pacific Northwest.
Over a four-decade career dedicated to urban and rural landscape painting, Tane often juxtaposes places he's been. Trading Places, his first solo exhibition at Modernism Gallery, explores this theme from multiple angles.
Tane portrays his subjects in meticulous detail, motivated by an interest in sharing what he's encountered. "I'm after causing the 'experience' of these locations to re-occur for the viewer," he says. To achieve that feat, he photographs places extensively, composing his final work from details captured in many different frames.
Tane considers this process to be equal parts observation and invention. "Sometimes an area begins as mere blobs of color," he says. "As I work it up, a face emerges, and even later on a glint in an eye reveals the direction of a gaze, and this triggers a memory of the moment when I first saw the scene." And he has found that those memories are often all that remain after a painting is finished. "Many of the locations I've chosen to paint change shortly after my capturing the images," he says. "Signs are altered or removed, buildings are torn down and replaced, and I've unwittingly created an historic record."
The public is cordially invited to attend an opening reception on Thursday, May 10th, from 5:30-8PM.
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Several years ago, Seth Tane hopped a barbed wire fence off State Route 14 near Dallesport, Washington, searching for just the right place to site a subway station. Surveying the rocky landscape, he took dozens of photographs, all of which he scrutinized back at his Portland studio.
The daylight in one of the pictures perfectly matched the angle of the sun in another photo he'd once taken of a subway stop in downtown New York. Seamlessly blending the disparate images into a single scene, he created a large painting in which New Yorkers appear to emerge from the F Line into a desolate stretch of the Pacific Northwest.
Over a four-decade career dedicated to urban and rural landscape painting, Tane often juxtaposes places he's been. Trading Places, his first solo exhibition at Modernism Gallery, explores this theme from multiple angles.
Tane portrays his subjects in meticulous detail, motivated by an interest in sharing what he's encountered. "I'm after causing the 'experience' of these locations to re-occur for the viewer," he says. To achieve that feat, he photographs places extensively, composing his final work from details captured in many different frames.
Tane considers this process to be equal parts observation and invention. "Sometimes an area begins as mere blobs of color," he says. "As I work it up, a face emerges, and even later on a glint in an eye reveals the direction of a gaze, and this triggers a memory of the moment when I first saw the scene." And he has found that those memories are often all that remain after a painting is finished. "Many of the locations I've chosen to paint change shortly after my capturing the images," he says. "Signs are altered or removed, buildings are torn down and replaced, and I've unwittingly created an historic record."
The public is cordially invited to attend an opening reception on Thursday, May 10th, from 5:30-8PM.
Opening reception Thur, May 10, 5:30-8pm; Exhibition May 10 - June 30, 2018
Several years ago, Seth Tane hopped a barbed wire fence off State Route 14 near Dallesport, Washington, searching for just the right place to site a subway station. Surveying the rocky landscape, he took dozens of photographs, all of which he scrutinized back at his Portland studio.
The daylight in one of the pictures perfectly matched the angle of the sun in another photo he'd once taken of a subway stop in downtown New York. Seamlessly blending the disparate images into a single scene, he created a large painting in which New Yorkers appear to emerge from the F Line into a desolate stretch of the Pacific Northwest.
Over a four-decade career dedicated to urban and rural landscape painting, Tane often juxtaposes places he's been. Trading Places, his first solo exhibition at Modernism Gallery, explores this theme from multiple angles.
Tane portrays his subjects in meticulous detail, motivated by an interest in sharing what he's encountered. "I'm after causing the 'experience' of these locations to re-occur for the viewer," he says. To achieve that feat, he photographs places extensively, composing his final work from details captured in many different frames.
Tane considers this process to be equal parts observation and invention. "Sometimes an area begins as mere blobs of color," he says. "As I work it up, a face emerges, and even later on a glint in an eye reveals the direction of a gaze, and this triggers a memory of the moment when I first saw the scene." And he has found that those memories are often all that remain after a painting is finished. "Many of the locations I've chosen to paint change shortly after my capturing the images," he says. "Signs are altered or removed, buildings are torn down and replaced, and I've unwittingly created an historic record."
The public is cordially invited to attend an opening reception on Thursday, May 10th, from 5:30-8PM.
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Several years ago, Seth Tane hopped a barbed wire fence off State Route 14 near Dallesport, Washington, searching for just the right place to site a subway station. Surveying the rocky landscape, he took dozens of photographs, all of which he scrutinized back at his Portland studio.
The daylight in one of the pictures perfectly matched the angle of the sun in another photo he'd once taken of a subway stop in downtown New York. Seamlessly blending the disparate images into a single scene, he created a large painting in which New Yorkers appear to emerge from the F Line into a desolate stretch of the Pacific Northwest.
Over a four-decade career dedicated to urban and rural landscape painting, Tane often juxtaposes places he's been. Trading Places, his first solo exhibition at Modernism Gallery, explores this theme from multiple angles.
Tane portrays his subjects in meticulous detail, motivated by an interest in sharing what he's encountered. "I'm after causing the 'experience' of these locations to re-occur for the viewer," he says. To achieve that feat, he photographs places extensively, composing his final work from details captured in many different frames.
Tane considers this process to be equal parts observation and invention. "Sometimes an area begins as mere blobs of color," he says. "As I work it up, a face emerges, and even later on a glint in an eye reveals the direction of a gaze, and this triggers a memory of the moment when I first saw the scene." And he has found that those memories are often all that remain after a painting is finished. "Many of the locations I've chosen to paint change shortly after my capturing the images," he says. "Signs are altered or removed, buildings are torn down and replaced, and I've unwittingly created an historic record."
The public is cordially invited to attend an opening reception on Thursday, May 10th, from 5:30-8PM.
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