Allison Hunter: Slower Still May 15, 2008

Allison Hunter
Slower Still
May 15 – June 21, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 15, 6-8 pm

Women & Their Work proudly presents Slower Still, a solo photography exhibition by Houston-based artist Allison Hunter.In Hunter’s digitally manipulated photographs, zoo animals are shown divested of their everyday settings and recontextualized in surreal surroundings. Removed from their enclosures yet still ‘caught,’ framed in abstract washes of light and color, Hunter’s eerily prescient animals are far from pastoral. With background details missing, the photographer’s gaze feels heightened and hyperreal—and Hunter’s zoological subjects reciprocate that gaze from lushly captured moments slowed down, halted, frozen in time.

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