Crossing The Blue Hour

On view by appointment from July 6 to July 21, 201.

Opening Reception, Thursday, July 6
6:00-9:00 pm
with music performance at 8:00 pm by Polyorchard. Polyorchard will be Bill McConaghy, David Menestres, Charles Phaneuf, and Christopher Robinson.

Crossing The Blue Hour, by Peter Francis Barnett and Shane C. Smith

it’s a moment (?)…

It occurs over the course of a few seconds… a vivid recollection of a night in a room… she’s on the foot of the bed talking, her hands clasped together in front of her.  In the window behind her, a red neon sign.

Guest Room is pleased to present a new photographic series by Peter Francis Barnett and new mixed-media sculptures and paintings by Shane C. Smith.

The Blue Hour is a series of six photographs inspired by the visual aesthetic of David Lynch’s 1986 drama Blue Velvet and specifically by the character Dorothy Vallens.
-Peter Francis Barnett

The Blue Hour (Blue Lady No. 2), Peter Francis Barnett

1983, Shane C. Smith

Crossing, is a real noir, the ghost of Sarah Fox, whose body was found in Inwood Hill Park, the woods I walk in daily. Born in 1983, she is my age, now gone; I walk the same paths through the yellow tulip trees.
-Shane C. Smith

 

Peter Francis Barnett is a photographer and multimedia artist exploring the “constructed image” and its function in contemporary culture.  He has shown work in New York, Los Angeles and Prague.

Shane C. Smith’s venues circle between unsanctioned performance spaces and curated museum exhibitions. Exhibitions and performance venues include the Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland Maine; the John and June Allcott Gallery, UNC; Ackland Museum, UNC; DAC Gallery, Los Angeles; and the American Museum of Natural History, NYC.

 

All images are subject to copyright. Gallery approval must be granted prior to reproduction.

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