DIVING DEEPER
March 30 – May 4, 2024
Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 30, 2024
From 4PM – 7PM
PDNB Gallery presents its second iteration of DEEP DIVE. A new group exhibition opens March 30th, DIVING DEEPER, which includes more treasures from deep inside portfolio boxes and flat files that have not been exhibited in recent years.
In the 1990’s, Dutch artist, Jan van Leeuwen, was featured in an exhibition at PDNB. Van Leeuwen created still lives, influenced by early Dutch master painters, He also photographed himself in allegorical images. His preference was to work with early photo-based print processes including cyanotype and kallitype. A stunning sunflower image by van Leeuwen is included in this exhibition.
Neal Slavin, a photographer, and filmmaker, was commissioned by England’s National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, to photograph groups in Great Britain. Slavin had already made a splash in the 1970’s contemporary art scene with his series, When Two or More are Gathered Together. The project in England was co-sponsored by Polaroid, by lending their large format camera. One of these extraordinary Polaroid prints is included in this exhibition, a jovial group of Channel Swimmers from 1984.
An early iconic photograph by Argentine artist, Esteban Pastorino Diaz, illustrates the artist’s keen sense of awe for flying. Early in his career, he would attach a handmade box camera to a kite to create aerial photographs. Later he would take photographs from his ultralight flying machine. The 2006 photograph included in this exhibition is from his series of bullfight images at the famous Las Ventas bull ring in Madrid, Spain.
Many other PDNB treasures will be included by the famous Native American tribe documenter, Edward S. Curtis, Spanish surrealist, Chema Madoz, New York artist Chris Verene and Dallas artist, Chris Regas.
Image: Neal Slavin, Channel Swimmers, 1984
