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SUMMARY:Gilman Contemporary Presents Stephen Wilkes: America at 250\, a Sol
 o Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:For more than four decades\, Stephen Wilkes (b. 1957\, New York
 ) has trained his lens on the American experience with patience and moral c
 larity. Working across the country's most defining landscapes\, industrial 
 sites\, and open skies\, Wilkes has built a body of work that reads\, in to
 tality\, as an intimate and unflinching portrait of a nation in motion: its
  grandeur and its grief\, its ambition and its aftermath. As the United Sta
 tes marks 250 years\, his photographs ask us to sit with that complexity ho
 nestly.\\n\\nCentral to this exhibition is Wilkes' landmark series Day to 
 Night. Working from a fixed vantage point\, Wilkes photographs iconic Ameri
 can landscapes and cityscapes continuously for up to 36 hours\, capturing o
 ver 1\,500 images across a full cycle of light. These are then painstakingl
 y composited into a single panoramic photograph in which dawn\, midday\, du
 sk\, and night coexist within one frame. The result is less a photograph th
 an a meditation on time itself: a visual record of the earthly rhythms of t
 he passage of time. In Wilkes' own words\, each Day to Night is like a sy
 mphony\, built slowly and deliberately from countless individual moments.\\
 n\\nAlongside these works\, the exhibition features selections from Wilkes'
  Tapestries series\, a body of work he describes as the jazz to Day to N
 ight's symphony. Where the latter demands weeks of planning and hours of ex
 posure\, the Tapestries are spontaneous and instinctive\, created through 
 in-camera multiple exposures captured in just four to eight seconds. Layere
 d\, impressionistic\, and alive with texture\, they capture the emotional r
 esidue of a moment rather than its literal truth: the surface of water\, a 
 winter morning\, the gesture of a tree. At Gilman Contemporary\, the series
  is presented as commissioned hand- woven tapestries\, transforming photogr
 aphic images into physical textile\, inviting us to consider not only what 
 Wilkes sees but the very threads through which meaning is made.\\n\\nComple
 ting the exhibition are works from Wilkes' earlier series on the abandoned 
 Bethlehem Steel plant in Pennsylvania. Once a titan of American industry\, 
 its silent ruins speak to the rise and fall of the working communities that
  powered the nation. Where Day to Night and Tapestries find America in 
 its rhythms and textures\, the Bethlehem Steel photographs find it in its b
 ones. Taken together\, these three bodies of work form a portrait of a coun
 try at 250: layered\, luminous\, and still grappling with the weight of its
  own story.
URL:https://visitsunvalley.com/events/gilman-contemporary-presents-stephen-
 wilkes-america-at-250-a-solo-exhibition/
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