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| Special "EYE" to Watch by June Mattingly // regularmain.com Walker Pickering "Nearly West" at B. Hollyman Gallery through June 1st The 15 square-format photographic color prints total in the “Nearly West” series were on view last month at the Houston Center for Photography selected by Menil Collection Curators. The month before Walker participated in a panel discussion at the Society for Photographic Education National Conference in Atlanta. His work was pictured and discussed in two issues of Art Lies, in the Houston Chronicle’s “Mapplethorpe and Talent in Texas, Must See Photography,” in Modern Luxury, aCurator blog, and in Cantanker Magazine’s “Ambiguous Object,” with an associated exhibit at Pump Projects in Austin, all just in the first part of 2011 |
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| “Hole,” pigment on paper, 2011, 30 x 30 inches |
| Based in Austin, Walker is on the verge of greater notice as an art photographer and received his MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design, teaches photography at the Art Institute of Austin and served as a photographer for the Texas House of Representatives. Walker is represented by B. Hollyman Gallery in Austin. |
| “Nearly West” covers a time period of close to three years. Inspired by the barely inhabited vast area of open roads in this country populated with chain motels, old model cars, welcoming diners, Walker’s realistic appealing documentations simulate careful, planned but casual views of the rural part of our country. |
| “Camaro,” pigment on paper, 2011, 30 x 30 inches |
| A beautifully defined application of color enraptures the simple distinct symbols in country life, the natural landscapes, and the traces of the people who live there “in a way that transcends the banality of these everyday markers… each with a balancing peacefulness.” |
| B. Hollyman Gallery, named after its owner and creator says “You know it when you see. In an instant and then it is gone. Luckily, we have photography to capture part of it.” This recently established gallery specializes solely in fine contemporary photography by artists on all levels of accomplishment and acceptance with a range of “eclectic, experimental and wide-ranging” work; they’re off to a celebratory start with Walker. |
| “Sealy,” pigment on paper, 2011 30 x 30 inches |
| B. Hollyman Gallery 1202-A W. 6th Street Austin. TX 78703 512.694.6544 www.bhollymangallery.com |
| “Meal,”pigment on paper, 2011, 30 x 30 inches |
