Howard Pugh in Residence in the Ken Cook Gallery

Photographer Howard Pugh in the Ken Cook Gallery at the Sun Gallery

October 5th - November 12th

Image to left "Generosity in Nature"

Photographer Howard Pugh is currently in residence in the Ken Cook Gallery. His vibrant, beautiful, abstract photographic works meld thenatural with the urban and create totally unique images. His exhibition"Patterns of Abuse" runs through November 12th and we'd love to see you here.

Above: "Prophecy" by Howard Pugh

The artist has written of his own work and art making process;

"As all things human-fashioned are invariably undone or unbecome in their journey back to the primordial, a subtle cosmological intent gets revealed. There is a great underlying mystery in the return pull to the primordial, not perhaps an actual intelligence, but a force that expresses itself in the very style in which all that's artificial must flow back into the sea of the pre-organized; atide receding, a tide reconvening. Far from random occurrences of rust, of peeling paint, fading and degradation, the great mystery of the return to the primordial is a process of communication, of dialogue; the etchings of decay -its very handwriting. There is remarkable order here, albeit not the order ofour world, or order in the realm of abstract understanding, but also not anorder subjugated to the superficial tyranny known as chaos either. Even nihilistic ideology as a human creation, eventually withers and is crushed by the ever-fixed pull of the great mystery to the primordia'

Come and see how these words translate into remarkable photographs and the Sun Gallery once again showcases cutting edge artwork made in the East Bay!