SSH Gallery Features Corvallis Photographers
Bill Laing "Exploring Low Tide" (top) Kat Sloma "Vanishing" (below) An exhibit of photographs created with mobile phone technology by Kat Sloma and Bill Laing of Corvallis will be shown Feb. 3-28 in the South Santiam Hall Gallery of Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd SW. A reception and gallery talk will be held Thursday, Feb. 6, from 5:30 - 7 p.m. "Myphoneography" features more than 20 prints by the two artists, who use their mobile phones to capture images encountered in their everyday lives and then apply various "apps" to achieve painterly results. Sloma is presenting a selection from her "Treescapes" series, which she describes as poems painted on the sky: "When viewed against the open sky, the tree becomes the landscape. The open sky becomes an empty canvas to paint upon. I create unreal scenes, but find them grounded to earthly reality through the recognizable skeleton of the trees."...