This exhibition is a tribute to Ken Graves, photographer and collage artist, who passed away this year leaving a legacy of over 50 years of work. His career in photography began in San Francisco in the 1960’s when he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Thereafter, Graves taught photography at Pennsylvania State University for over thirty years, maintaining an active professional career exhibiting his work at galleries and museums nationally. In later years he was joined by his wife Eva Lipman in a collaborative photographic and darkroom practice, and returned to the Bay Area. He also meticulously constructed collages from found photo reproductions, using string, feathers, wire and delicate materials.
His Home Front series began in the sixties while he was completing his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. Graves observed everyday people, many firmly entrenched in the “Establishment” life under critique, capturing strangeness in the normal at a time of social revolution in San Francisco.
Ken Graves, The Home Front
Through October 8, 2016
Anglim Gilbert Gallery
14 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
USA
