As the Road is Long – Sarah Law

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Opening Reception: March 8th, 2014 7-12pm

Exhibition: March 8th-April 6th, 2014

Overview: 

“Several years ago, while shooting a wedding, I had the lovely good fortune to meet a touring band who had flown in to play for the celebration. The day changed the direction of my photography and my life. We stayed in touch and a couple months later I found myself in Washington, D.C. in a studio as the band These United States recorded an album called Everything Touches Everything. It was a brand new experience for me and, as it turned out, one I loved. I spent the next several years touring with TUS and working with many other wildly talented and amazing folks such as Denver locals Paper Bird and The Lumineers; as well as Ben Kweller, The Mynabirds, Y La Bamba, Vandaveer, The Head and The Heart, Rubblebucket and many more bands it’s possible you’ve never heard of, but should love with all your heart. 

It is a world that few people get to experience. It is magical and exhausting and inspiring and gratifying. It is long days, lengthy drives and late nights with little rest. Hours are spent in vans and buses traveling highways and side roads to arrive in time to grab a quick bite, check emails, run through a few songs for sound-check, grab a quick nap and try to catch up on everything you have left behind at home. It means spending 24 hours a day with your band-mates…they become your family. It means being able to do things on the run, being able eat what is put in front of you and being able to sleep in nearly any situation. It’s not glamorous and it’s not easy.

The lovely and amazing folks I have met on the road are ridiculously inspiring to me. They do this because they love it. I have been so fortunate to share this and to photograph this. It’s the moments no one ever sees when they go to a show that I love so much. The day to day and the hour to hour of life on the road. The photos collected here are a reflection of this life. “As the Road is Long” is the story of many bands and the experiences that connect them as they put into the world their amazing art. Enjoy.”      -Sarah Law

Photography by: Amanda Tipton

Blood-Sisters – Sandi Calistro & Blair Pascal

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BLOOD+SISTER is an ever-expanding collaboration project between painter and custom tattooer Sandi Calistro and photographer Blair Pascal. Each photographic portrait included within the exhibition is hand painted after print, composing a seamless interconnection of two art forms and the synthesis of two individual artist’s visions. The title, The Blood of the Covenant is Thicker Than the Water of the Womb is appropriated from the ancient proverb insinuating that the bond between comrades is stronger than that of family alliances. 

BLOOD+SISTER functions as a channel into the process specific to women creating together. At the start resides the collaboration between subject and photographer. The female muse tends to occupy an uneasy and shifting place at the intersection of the body and it’s representation. The photographs in BLOOD+SISTER engage that precarious space between the inherent passive nature of photography and an active representation of the subject. The intimate treatment provided by Calistro’s illustration evokes sentiment at the same time conjures thoughtfulness of the artist’s hand. BLOOD+SISTER is the embodiment of female collaboration.

Photography by: Amanda Tipton.