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© David Fokos, Canal |
February 18, 2005 For Immediate Release
LOS ANGELES, CA. The Paul Kopeikin Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by minimalist photographer David Fokos. This exhibition opens Saturday March 19th and runs through April 30th, 2005. A reception with the artist will take place on Saturday, March 19th, 2005 from 6:00 to 8:00pm. The reception is free and open to the public. The gallery is located at 6150 Wilshire Blvd, just west of Fairfax. For information call 323-937-0765.
David Fokos continues to explore the epic beauty of simple, geometric forms and enigmatic scenes through his favorite subjects: water, light, horizon, rocks, and sand. Combining long exposures with mechanical manipulations and dedication, Fokos’ style has by this point become signature. Fokos describes his work as filtering out the "visual noise" of everyday life to reveal the basic forms of our world.
Fokos earned a degree in electrical engineering in 1984 and immediately turned his analytic skills to artistic endeavors: first as a designer of high-end speakers and then as photographer. He finds similarities between the two, saying that finessing the sound of the speakers (making it warmer, darker, brighter, cooler) requires the same level of precision as the making of his negatives and prints. He makes all his image manipulations digitally, including his favored split-toning (sepia and selenium), prior to printing his 36"x36" prints on color paper.
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© David Fokos, Mooring Rings, Study #1 |
Fokos has chosen to make images that interpret feelings formed over time, just as we build a portrait of people across numerous meetings. His is not the ‘snapshot’ aesthetic, but a studied feeling of his total experience of place. With more recent works tending toward abstraction, the subject becomes less obvious. Constantly reducing and fine-tuning, his silent landscapes create a unique and personal visual poetry.
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