Closing Reception and Student Meet & Greet
Ring in the new school year with us at McIntosh Gallery! Enjoy complimentary refreshments and meet fellow incoming, returning and graduating students as you check out Visual Art MFA candidate Alyssa Sweeney's thesis exhibition Confined by Darkness. This event is free and open to the public, all are welcome.
"Confined by Darkness" uses night photography to explore themes of place attachment and psychogeography of the surrounding environment. By venturing out alone while most are fast asleep Sweeney captures images in a way that most people infrequently see. Sweeney explores the emotional and mental connection to being physically present within the space, thus rendering the subject matter available for individuals to evoke their own experiences and memories in response.
In his book Night Photography: Finding Your Way in the Dark (2010), Lance Keimig argues that “Photographing at night requires one to look at the world from a different perspective. Night photography should not be considered merely an extension of daytime photography because night light transforms the known world into something unfamiliar and strange.” In an effort to desensitize spaces that may seem appalling or frightening, Sweeney examines how such spaces are contradictory to how they are interpreted during daylight.
We regret that McIntosh Gallery is not wheelchair accessible.
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Graduate student exhibitions at McIntosh Gallery are presented in memory of King's College alumnus Gregory Franklin Child through the generous support of Western University Arts and Humanities alumni Paula Case Child and Timothy Child.
