Grays the Mountain Sends: Opening Reception with Bryan Schutmaat
Reception
Grays the Mountain Sends: Opening Reception with Bryan Schutmaat
Tuesday, September 17
8:30 p.m. EDT
Join us for the opening reception for Grays the Mountain Sends, an exhibition of photographs by Bryan Schutmaat, the 2013 Aperture Portfolio Prize winner, whose work was chosen from over one thousand entries. Schutmaat’s images describe a series of mining sites and small, hardscrabble mountain towns. Also portrayed are the people who have worked in them, built them, and a few younger people who might—or might not—be looking for a way out of them. It’s this balance between the clearly ravaged land and equally devastated faces, with a few moments of youth, beauty, and the last glimmer of promises never truly fulfilled, that elevates Schutmaat’s work
Image: Bryan Schutmaat, Abandoned Homestead, Red Mountain Mining District, Colorado, 2011
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