Archived Shows

The Highland City Club Gallery has hosted shows for a wealth of world class photographers. We welcome you to peruse our current show, here in our Boulder photography gallery, or online by clicking the "Current Show" link in the left navigation. For additional information on any of our past shows, please feel free to contact us.

Perceive

Scott Engel | Sept 09-Nov 17, 2011

Scott Engel has been photographing Colorado and the Western landscape for many years. His current series focuses on places that are about to be forgotten, changed by circumstances that make their existence temporal, fading into an unintended beauty. The colors, light and form of these places speak to the passage of time and the human condition. Scottʼs work has been widely exhibited and published, and is in numerous collections including the Denver Art Museum. He has an MFA from the University of Colorado and was Coordinator/Instructor of Photography at Arapahoe Community College from 1979 to 2003. Scott lives in Coaldale, Colorado.
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Soft Rocks - Hard Water

Christopher Brown | April 7, 2011 to June 8, 2011

Christopher Brown has been photographing the American West for 40 years. These images are about the relationship between rocks and water, geologically and metaphorically.

Christopher's photographs have been exhibited in over 100 exhibitions, and have appeared in numerous publications. His photographs are in many public, corporate, and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Denver Art Museum.

These prints in this exhibition are made by Chris at his Boulder studio. With two exceptions, they are from film originals, in the 2.25" and 4x5 formats, which are scanned on a Howtek drum scanner, reconstituted in Photoshop, and printed with an Epson 7600 printer with pigment prints.
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Flow: An Exercise in Imagination

Stan Grotegut | June 11, 2010 - September 8, 2010

Assembling a gallery show is like planning a dinner party. You want all the invited guests to have some things in common so that a lively table communion can occur. Each individual brings a whole world to the evening's gathering. Some are extroverted, flamboyant, others shy, quiet and not so easily available

The guest list for this photographic assembly was chosen with the idea of "flow" in mind. Each picture brings a different expression of flow to the table, to the wall, to the mind's eye. One hopes that the gathering will become more than the sum of its individuals, like a gracious evening with friends at the table.
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A Corroded Mosaic: Pattern and Forum in Unexpected Places

Ken Sanville | April 16, 2010 - June 9, 2010

Louisville photographer Ken Sanville presents an exhibit of images of rusty farm implements at ‘Don’s Farm’ near Boulder. Drawn to its photographic possibilities, Sanville focuses on the discarded apparatus of a former age, revealing a basic and stark beauty.

This series of images utilizes the many creative tools of the digital darkroom. Sanville uses techniques that modify texture and theme, creating an end result that is often surprising and interesting. Inspired by airbrush painting, a number of these images contain a corroded texture from a normal viewing distance that dissolves into ethereal mosaic pattern upon closer inspection. By dividing many of the images into montages, or segments, the viewer observes the underlying blueprint of these decaying trucks and tractors in a novel way.
Facets of Nature

Greg Cartopassi | January 10, 2010 - March 3, 2010

Greg Cortopassi’s photographs of reflections and refractions in water are original and often evoke strong emotions. His inspiration comes from a deep desire to connect with the life and beauty of the natural world. Although Greg’s work includes the broader catagories of landscape and nature, his specialty is a collection of macro photography which he calls Facets of Nature. This collection of one-of-a-kind images captures the unique patterns found in water and reveals the often overlooked beauty found in nature’s nooks and crannies.The mysterious appeal of these photographs lies in their potential to temper perception, stimulating imagination.
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Restoring an American Legacy

Edward Curtis | November 6, 2009 - January 6, 2010

The elegiac images of Native Americans shot by Edward S. Curtis in the first decades of the 20th century are prized as the last authentic record of a lost culture. Highly collectible, they are also difficult to find in good condition. By the time Curtis died in 1652, his glass negatives had been destroyed an the copper plates used for his masterwork, the North American Indian, were deteriorating in the basement of a Boston bookstore.

This exhibit of hand-pulled gravure prints offers an extraordinary value. Vintage gravures of Curtis' best images can cost upwards of $25,000. Comparable prints in this show are for sale in the $500 - $750 price range.
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Coastal Elements

Adrian Davis | August 7, 2009 - November 3, 2009

The photographs in this exhibit cover the Pacific Coastline from Washington to southern California. It’s 4 year project, now in its last year, that will ultimately yield a hardcover book with the portfolio title.

The printing of the images follows a style Davis calls "Neo-Vintage". These exquisite prints are printed personally by Davis using a highly textured, creamy watercolor paper in the printing; using archival inks with rich, warm tones to give the black and white images a look and feel that is more antique than modern. “I am often asked when my photographs were taken? What year? I take this as a great compliment as it meets the goal of my image presentation.”
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Desert Scenes

Bob Maynard | May 21, 2009 - July 8, 2009

“My first exposure to the Desert Southwest was in 1984 when passing through Moab en-route to Paige, Arizona to raft the Colorado River via the Grand Canyon. The photographs in this exhibit are the result of my explorations during the years since; in search of the ancient ruins of the enigmatic Anasazi Indians; photographing both the iconic and lesser-known Desert Southwest sites of the Anasazi. My passion for the desert has continued to grow with each passing year. My greatest hope is that these images will inspire the same sense of awe in the viewers of this exhibit..”
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Self Reflections

Boulder High Students | March 6, 2009 - May 6, 2009

Imagine yourself in a photography dark room staring with anticipation into a chemical bath at an emerging image of yourself. You wonder if your manipulation of this dying art (for the chemical photographic process is indeed a dying art) will succeed in revealing a hidden part of yourself. Should something be added or taken away? Darkroom development is an alchemical process – an interplay of creativity and chemicals.

Creating and Viewing self portraiture can be a revealing experience for those willing to look beyond casual appearances. This is just as true for the photographer as it is for his or her audience. We, as a society, tend to hide behind a mask of our own making. The self-consciousness of modern society, as evidenced by the ‘face’ we learn to put on when our picture is taken, is not necessarily the same as being self-aware. The creators of these self-portraits are exploring themselves--as well as revealing themselves to others. Self portraiture makes for a fascinating introspection and vulnerability on the part of the artist and we, as viewers, are privileged to witness and ponder the result.
Visions of Heaven

David Stephenson | January 9, 2009 - March 5, 2009

Within both the Christian and Islamic architectural traditions, domes have been a major element of mausoleum, church and mosque design for over 1000 years, yet there has been no comprehensive study of the history of this tradition in Europe, and no research which comprehensively investigates stylistic developments and their iconographic significance.

There's an ethereal magic to standing beneath a dome, neck craned, looking up at a vision of the heavens created by some long-ago figure of genius. From the Pantheon to the Hagia Sophia, the power of the dome seems transcendent. Photographer David Stephenson's magnificent, kaleidoscopic images of dome interiors capture this evanescent drama.
Facing North: Portraits of Ely, Minnesota

Andrew Goldman | November 19, 2008 - January 7, 2008

The photographs in this exhibit are from the book Facing North: Portraits of Ely, Minnesota, released in April of this year. Facing North took Goldman five years. In that time, a lot changed in the community. Businesses came and went. People died, moved away, grew up. The story is different today than it was the day the first picture was taken. It will be different again tomorrow. In the end, the collective and lasting story these portraits tell is one that reflects the unique and ageless spirit of the Northwoods.

“The idea of documenting Ely, Minnesota appealed to me for a number of reasons. The visual variety and strength of character in the people there offered seemingly limitless potential for interesting images. But, mostly, I wanted to find the larger story through the faces of the people there.”
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OPS Eye: An Undewater Journey

Oceanic PReservation Socienty | September 26, 2008 -

Highland City Club Gallery presents this premier exhibition of high definition underwater images by renowned photographers, David Doubilet, Simon Hutchins, and Louie Psihoyos. Psihoyos and longtime dive buddy, Netscape founder Jim Clark, created the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS) in 2005 to use art to express the importance of the oceans.

These photographs dramatically show the beauty of the reefs, while highlighting the need to preserve this fragile ecosystem. These intensely detailed underwater lifescapes will be unveiled for the first time, displaying the foresight of Clark, who envisioned the high resolution camera used to create these wonder-filled images.
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The Beauty of Birds

Stanley Doctor | May 9, 2008 -

I have loved birds ever since I was a kid in Western Michigan. In the woods near my home I discovered such exotics as Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks and Blackburnian Warblers. I was thrilled to be able to see them; to see their beautiful colors and study their behavior when no one else in my family even knew they existed.

Since then I have traveled all over the globe to try and see even more colorful and exotic birds than those of my childhood and each new one has given me that same thrill.
Of This Special Place

Richard Van Pelt | March 7, 2008 - April 30, 2008

I have lived within sight of this locality all of my life; the details of the place are a home to me. I believe the pictures I make here are sincere, a result of care and attention to the place. With time and attention come local understandings.

As documents of natural history, these photographs do not proclaim toward some fact; they are, rather, a telling-in-shapes whose truths are formal and conceited. The meanings of the pictures are appropriable and general - they are, after all, pictures: poetic and whimsical.

In viewing these pictures you may notice an evenness to the way they look. In all of them, the viewpoint is human and the rendering is literal. I want the pictures that I make to be clear and authentic; they should be readable and trustworthy, well-formed in shape and idea. A responsible pride, and trust in the practice of my craft, brings me to the expression of this involvement - the made object, the print itself. It must compel its own autonomous dignity, and be fitting and worthy of this special place.
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Khampa: Portraits of Tibet

James Gritz | November 2, 2007 - December 31, 2007

The work presented here is from a project started in eastern Tibet in 2005 in a province known as Kham. Kham is the eastern nomadic section of Tibet, rarely glimpsed by foreigners due to its high altitude, lack of any roadways and rugged terrain. Today Kham is distributed over the three Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Yunnan and Sichuan. I went to Kham accompanying a film crew along with the Tibetan lama Tsoknyi Rinpoche III. Our project was to make a documentary film on the Nangchen Nuns, a unique group of dedicated female monastic practioners of Tantric Buddhism. As a student of Tibetan Buddhism for over thirty years I am saddened to see the simple spiritual way of life of both the monastic and lay people in peril from the onslaught of the modern world and industrialization of China. I hope to continue working on this project and documenting the changes of a culture teetering on the edge of their fragile and evanescent lifestyle.
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A Midnight Carnival

Charis Raecker | September 7, 2007 - October 31, 2007

“In my hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, there is an annual fair in mid-September called the Cattle Congress. It has a good-sized midway with all the bizarre contraptions and activities that most of us know and love to see at a fair. Even as a kid with my first SLR camera, I could tell this kind of place was ripe for unraveling .

With a little experimenting I was able to distill-out just what makes the subject matter so interesting to me. A Midnight Carnival was born.
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Field Guide to Life on Earth

International League of Conservation Photographers | June 15, 2007 - August 31, 2007

The Field Guide to Life on Earth is a traveling collection of fine art prints. The exhibit celebrates the splendor of nature and calls attention to the conservation challenges facing both people and biodiversity around the world. The exhibit made its debut in 2006 at the inaugural event of the International Conservation Caucus Foundation in Washington, D.C. From there, it traveled in conjunction with the Telluride Film Festival: the Massachusetts Audubon Visual Center; and just finished its run at the Mountain Film Festival in Telluride.
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Shamanic Journeys to Ancient America

Stephen Collector | April 6, 2007 - June 8, 2007

Stephen Collector was born in Virginia in 1951. He attended college at George Washington University and received a degree in English literature from the University of Colorado in 1973. He has resided in Colorado since 1971. Began a career as a freelance photographer in 1975, for the most part, self-taught. He undertook the Brand Inspector project in 1980 in the documentary large format style of pioneer photographers, E.S. Curtis and L. A. Huffman. Photographs from this project appeared in the book, Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West which earned best black and white book series award in Communication Arts Photography Annual in 1984.

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