Current group exhibition, 'California Gold' features a collection of works from several projects by American artist Christopher Woodcock. Christopher Woodcock was born in San Francisco in 1975 and received his BFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002. Much of his work centers on the complex geometrical patterns of city structures and building frames, and the construction of an image, which the artist has described as “a site-specific intervention captured on film.” In Desert Prophets, a series of photographs of Yucca brevifolia, more commonly known as the Joshua tree, Woodcock treats the images as portraits rather than landscapes, photographing these symbols of the Mojave Desert at night in order to collapse the panoramic space of the daytime desert. Isolated against a dark curtain of night, each figure is painted with a series of strobe flashes, giving the individual trees a sense of dimension and almost human morphology. 'California Gold' is on view until July 25, 2024. #ChristopherWoodcock #CaliforniaGold #BerggruenGallery Artwork details: All artworks by Christopher Woodcock, archival pigment prints, 18 x 12 inches: [1] 'Desert Prophet Death Valley Mine #0360,' 2024; [2] 'Desert Prophet Lanfair Valley #6335-4,' 2018; [3] 'Desert Prophet Cima Dome #0129,' 2024; [4] 'Desert Prophet Cima Dome #0226,' 2023; [5] 'Desert Prophet Sunset Rocks #1841,' 2023; [6] 'Desert Prophet Sunset Rocks #1841,' 2023; [7] 'Desert Prophet Sunset Rocks #1766,' 2023; [8] 'Desert Prophet Sunset Rocks #1815,' 2023; [9] 'Desert Prophet Sunset Rocks #1802,' 2023.
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