Please join us for an exhibition of recent photographs by Barbara Kyne, opening Friday November 4, 6-9pm.

exhibition on view November 4-December 3, 2016
closing weekend: First Friday, December 2nd, 6-9pm;Saturday, December 3rd, 1-5,with closing reception at 3pm

KQED REVIEW: A PLANT'S EYE VIEW OF THE WORLD - CLICK HERE TO READ

About the Exhibition: In this new body of work, which makes up her recently published book A Crack in the World (Daylight Books, 2016), Oakland-based photographer Barbara Kyne imagines "what the consciousness of plants might be."

Through her unique camera-being, Kyne posits a view of reality that is neither purely human nor only anthropologically informed. Instead, she is attempting something that is aesthetically very new: can a human-made tool, like the camera, actually be used to perceive non-human sensory experience? Her works seem to answer with a joyous yes!

Kyne writes about the process of making these photographs: "The sentience of all living entities and our shared consciousness jumps out at me as I peer through what seems like a crack in the world that allows me to begin to perceive some of its secrets." Although echoing in the history of great photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Paul Strand, who melded a crisp formalism with a natural-seeing, this timely work goes beyond that tradition and presents a view that we humans are perhaps only now ready for, and need more clearly than ever.

**On Saturday, November 5th, at 2:30 pm, Krowswork is pleased to host a special panel discussion and book signing with Barbara Kyne and Susan Griffin, author of Pulitzer-nominated A Chorus of Stones and the prescient and relevant 1978 book Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, just re-released with an image by Kyne on its cover.**

Kyne will also present selections from a body of work By Fire, first published in 2014, a semi-abstract portrait of light in the darkness, courage, and love.