New Exhibit, The Photography Show" opens at Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art in the Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, featuring works by Winston Swift Boyer, E.F. Kitchen, Lewis Koch, Ed Martin, Don Hong-Oai, and Robert Stivers

"The Photography Show" brings together the realized visions of six dynamic photographers. A myriad of themes and styles are united in this contemporary photography show. This show opens on November 16th and continues through January 31st.

(PRWEB) November 12, 2004 -- Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art presents The Photography Show", bringing together the realized visions of six dynamic photographers. A myriad of themes and styles are united in this contemporary photography show. The wide scope of photography range from, Academy Award nominee Ed Martin and his brilliantly vivid Nature Morte still-life images, to out of focus prints by Robert Stivers, recently named international top nude photographer by Rotovision, that explore themes of memory, eroticism, death, and rebirth. Winston Swift Boyer captures a 21st century Vertigo perspective of San Francisco in his dramatic night and day shots. In E.F. Kitchens Water Series, she is able to achieve a spiritual and universal quality that transcends time. Our sixth artist, Don Hong-Oai, works in a Chinese "pictorial" style, using several negatives to compose and perfect his landscape images.

Located in the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art specializes in contemporary painting, sculpture and photography. The gallery is co-owned by Holly Baxter and renowned San Francisco architect Piero Patri of Patri Merker Architects. The gallery brings an array of internationally established contemporary artists' works to the San Francisco art market. Baxter Chang Patri also provides art consulting services, buys and sells works of art on the secondary market. Business hours are Mon-Sat 10AM until 6PM and by appointment.

Winston Swift Boyer lives in Carmel, California and considers color photography his medium. Boyer speaks about his innovative new collection of photographs from the Vertigo Series, I have always felt that San Francisco hilly cityscapes and Victorian architecture has been a fantastic backdrop creating the dramatic tensions and compositions for a great series. The painters, Richard Dibenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud and the cinematography of Alfred Hitchcocks Northern California film locations have captured this essence. I started working on this series in the fall of 2003 with these feelings in mind. These are both night shots and day shots."

E.F. Kitchen

The nature of E.F.s work is to capture the essence of a landscape or still life. E.F. is after images that achieve a spiritual and universal quality that transcend time. American born in 1951, E.F. Kitchen is an internationally known artist. E.F.s photographs are included in many major museums and private collections.

Ed Martin

The Nature series are Martins most innovative and voluminous body of work. Although the Nature series are photographs, Martin does not use a camera to create them. He works with a modified enlarger which acts as a camera/enlarger. He places his subjects in the enlarger, manipulates their arrangement and magnifies them up to 800 times their original size. The image is then projected onto photographic paper and processed. "I am constantly inspired by the incomprehensible beauty and mystery of nature often hidden from our sight." says Martin. This series has become a metaphorical expression of Martins journey through the intricacies of his soul: he no longer looks to the world at large for inspiration, but to the smallest of details within. Martin is the sole artist working in this method. Ed Martin has mastered every field that he has worked in. During his career as a cinematographer on television commercials, he has received two CLIO awards and an Academy Award nomination for best documentary film.

Don Hong-Oai studied with the famous 104-year-old master, Long Chin-San in Taiwan. Here he learned to work in a Chinese "pictorial" style, using several negatives to compose a picture and perfecting his landscape work. He was honored by Kodak, Ilford and at Fotokina in West Germany and is a member of the International Federation of Photographic Art in Switzerland and the Chinatown Photographic Society. Don Hong-Oai has exhibited throughout the world and won numerous international prizes in competitions in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, France and Mexico.

Robert Stivers has been fortunate to wear many hats over the years. Stivers‚ successful career as a professional dancer was abruptly thrown to a halt when he suffered a traumatic back injury, shifting his artistic focus to choreography, and then ultimately to photography. He has recently been voted as one of the top international photographers by Rotovision, London, England.

"The world according to Robert Stivers is an anxious place in which vision of all is impaired, and in which no one, introvert or extrovert, can immediately feel entirely comfortable or secure... Spun around, unmoored from our reference points, off-center, stripped of the comfort of clarity and specifics, we are thrust abruptly into this astigmatic dramaturgy, rife with hints of ancient ritual, elemental forms, animal spirits, charged objects, celebrants and mourners, births and sacrifices, rushes and pauses, gaps and proximities." (A.D. Coleman, AG Magazine)

Located in the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art specializes in contemporary painting, sculpture and photography. The gallery is co-owned by Holly Baxter and renowned San Francisco architect Piero Patri of Patri Merker Architects. The gallery brings an array of internationally established contemporary artists' works to the San Francisco art market. Baxter Chang Patri also provides art consulting services, buys and sells works of art on the secondary market. Business hours are Mon-Sat 10AM until 6PM and by appointment.

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