KERIK KOUKLIS – FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
2019-03-25Kerik states that his job is to deliver the message, the mood, the thought, the emotion. The image is the starting place, and printmaking is the language. He makes all his prints in his darkroom, using hands-on processes – wet plate collodion, platinum/palladium and gum bichromate. These experience-based processes allow him to shape the way an image is interpreted – and they bring him the satisfaction of creating something with his own hands. To Kerik, that physical connection between maker and object confers value on both.
Kerik photographs the elements around him that he loves, or finds beautiful or fascinating. From the beginning, the Land has been his primary subject. Over time, friends and family have also found their way in front of his lens, often as characters transformed into different versions of themselves. And In recent years, Kerik has been drawn as well to create still lives of strange objects that present themselves as specimens, or as artifacts of some odd scientific study.
Exhibition runs through to April 6th, 2019
Viewpoint Photographic Art Center
2015 J. Street, Suite 101
Sacramento
95811 CA
