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Top image: Jeff Hess "and they came upon a forest" Bottom image: Kurt Norlin "Solar Transit" An exhibit of motion-based photography entitled Dancing with Light, Painting with Time by Kurt Norlin and Jeff Hess will be on display at South Santiam Hall Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany, February 3 to March 17. The artists for this exhibit of colorful abstract photography both use motion blur as the basis for the mark-making in their imagery. However, they create their images in distinctly different, even opposite ways. Norlin, retired LBCC photography instructor and Albany artist, creates his painterly photographs using a technique called “ICM,” or Intentional Camera Movement. Using a digital camera and pinhole lens, combined with deliberate, subtle camera movement, Norlin creates visual elements which he then layers and combines in Photoshop to create his final image. As Norlin says of his own process, “Part science, par...

Kurt Norlin - "Voodoo" Albany photographer Kurt Norlin will be exhibiting a series of recent black-and-white photographs from Feb. 11 to March 22 in the South Santiam Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. In “Alternate Vision,” Norlin shares his close observations of his immediate surroundings, usually gleaned from long walks through neighborhoods, down back alleys and along riverfront paths. His photographs, made in the “toy camera” aesthetic, become a series of visual bookmarks for the often-overlooked glimpses hidden all around us. “Over the years I have become more and more interested in the essence of a place, rather than the pure descriptive fact,” Norlin says. “To that end, I started shooting with toy and pinhole cameras in the early 1990s in order to capture that essence.” For his recent work, Norlin has turned to digital cameras with plastic optics to create the softly focused, dreamlike quality characteristic of his work. Nor...

The visual art faculty at Linn-Benton Community College are opening the 2012-13 Fall Term with their annual exhibit in the South Santiam Hall and Calapooia Center galleries on LBCC’s Albany Campus. Featured in the show are oil paintings and drawings by Department Chair Dori Bartholomew Litzer; charcoal drawings by Analee Fuentes; large-scale oil paintings by Gary Westford; wood-fired ceramics by Jay Widmer; photographs by Kurt Norlin; and lithographs by Frosene King. Also on view are photographs by gallery coordinator Rich Bergeman. The exhibit runs through Oct. 31. The gallery is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Caption  info: “Vermeer in His Studio in 2017 Painting Saturn and the Earth,” oil on canvas, by Gary Westford “Swamp View No. 2,” by Kurt Norlin