Rush Hour - New photos by Steve Hanson February 2, 2007

Please join us at Joe Bar for the opening reception of Steve Hanson’s new series of photographs, Friday, February 2 from 6 – 9pm.
Title: Rush Hour
Artist: Steve Hanson
Dates: February 2 – 28, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, February 2, 6-9pm
Venue: Joe Bar, 810 E Roy St, 206.324.0407 (across from the Harvard Exit Theater).
Contact: Chris Crites
[email protected]
206.568.7419
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— Steve Hanson’s Gelatin Silver prints of local freeways empty of traffic provide eerie, off guard glimpses at otherwise regular scenes. The landscapes and skylines are easily recognizable but something seems wrong.

Artist Statement:

The Rush Hour series shows the United States freeways devoid of cars.
No Photoshop tricks or digital manipulations were used to create these images. Only traditional black and while photographic processes are used: black and white film, a film camera, and a photographic enlarger.
Steve Hanson grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and moved to Seattle in 1993 to attend the graduate program in Classical Philosophy at the University of Washington. While writing his dissertation on Aristotle’s biological works, he took art classes, concentrating on photography. He is currently taking classes at Photographic Center Northwest.

http://stevelukehanson.com/
Curated by Chris Crites, Rush Hour
will have an opening reception on Friday, February
2nd at Joe Bar at 810 E Roy St., from 6-9pm;
206.324.0407.
Joe Bar is open 7:30am-9:30pm M-F; Saturday and Sunday 8:30am-9:30pm.

Official Website: http://stevelukehanson.com/