Andria and Katie, Indian Springs, 2004, Archival Digital Print, 40x30

Opening reception for Too Much Love Exhibition and Andrea Wallace: Idaho Springs Project - Tuesday, August 18, 5-7 pm.

Too Much Love
Patton-Malott Gallery
August 18 - September 8, 2009

As our summer workshop season is nearing the end, there is not much more to say than we have a lot of love, Too Much Love. This exhibition features work made by our 2009 Summer Staff, and exemplifies what it's all about - community, art, and love.

Thank you to our students, faculty, supporters, and summer staff for an inspiring, engaging, creative summer.

Andrea Wallace: Idaho Springs Project
Gideon Gartner Gallery
August 18 – September 18, 2009

In the southwest, tourist attractions are often expressed through this relationship to history, Native Americans and the mystique of the old west. This project focuses on bathers at an historic site turned tourist attraction located in central Colorado. Historically, the site was used and once considered sacred by the Ute and Arapahoe Indian tribes. Like many western tourist attractions, authenticity of the hot springs is questionable, the landscape has been transformed.

The “natural environment” has been re-constructed to include a 130,000-gallon indoor pool complete with a botanical garden and Native American music playing over loud speakers. These photographs come out of an engagement with this place. Employing a directorial approach, while still allowing for some self-presentation to the camera, I create large-scale highly saturated color photographs of the bathers, which speak not only to the site, but to the individual themselves.