[Pollinator] Fwd: BEE exhibit in Wash DC

[Ladadams at aol.com]

DC exhibit link - on during NAPPC.
 
 
  
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Sent: 10/12/2011 6:57:55 P.M. Pacific Daylight  Time
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Here is url:
_http://crossmackenzie.com/current.php?s=fisher&t=info_ 
(http://crossmackenzie.com/current.php?s=fisher&t=info) 


Exhibit is called The Landscape of Bees: Photographs by Rose-Lynn  Fisher
SEM images of honeybees at Cross Mackenzie Gallery
opening reception Friday, Oct 14, 6-8pm
exhibit dates Oct 14- Nov 11


2026 R Street NW
DC 20007
202.333.7970


Hope to see many of you!
Rose-Lynn




On Oct 4, 2011, at 4:57 PM, _Ladadams at aol.com_ (mailto:Ladadams at aol.com)  
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Sent: 10/4/2011  3:48:33 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time
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Do you know if  there is a URL for this exhibit? I’d like to post a  tweet.
 
 
  
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To: _Ladadams at aol.com_ (mailto:Ladadams at aol.com) 
Sent: 9/30/2011  10:36:28 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: BEE exhibit in Wash  DC
 

hi Laurie,   
 

 
fyi - upcoming  exhibition opens Oct 14 at Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Wash DC 
(continuing  until 11/11).
 

 
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Press  Release from Cross Mackenzie Gallery:
 

 
 
Contact:  Rebecca Cross 202.333.7970
 
_becca at crossmackenzie.com_ (mailto:becca at crossmackenzie.com) 
 

 
We are pleased  to present the exhibition,  “The Landscape of Bees”  
Photographs by Rose-Lynn Fisher.  The opening reception at our  gallery will 
include a book signing and honey tasting with the artist  October  14th from 
6-8pm.
 

 
The California based  photographer, Rose-Lynn Fisher says of her  subjects,
 

 
“Our most  important pollinator, the ultimate synergist, an architect, 
spatial  genius, winged apothecary, and the transmuter of the finest substance 
of  nectar into honey, the honeybee has been revered and utilized by  
civilizations throughout  time.”
 

 
Fisher’s  reverence for the honeybee is unparalleled as evidenced by her  
astonishing black and white photographs of ultra close-up images of the  
anatomy of these magical creatures.  The detail revealed is  stunning and 
surprising.  Magnified sometimes up to 5,000  times in a scanning electron 
microscope, the patterns she discovers are  otherworldly, more like landscapes than 
miniatures. Hair and pollen look  like forests of trees and boulders 
through Fisher’s lens – the bee’s  abdomen resembles rolling foothills after a 
forest fire.  The  fact that the compound eye of the bee is made up of 
hexagons mirroring  the hexagonal structure of their honeycombs expands our 
thinking about  the natural world.  Our sense of scale is confused and  connections 
of micro and macro are made  tangible.
 

 
Fisher’s focus  is sharp and her images are clean.  The richness of her 
grey  scale, her deep blacks and contrasting whites, subtle warm tones and  
gentle light, would please any classic photography  connoisseur.  There are no 
extraneous elements in these  photographs and they function like powerful 
abstractions at this  scale.  But, that they are images of bees is  essential  
– there is a message  here.
 

 
One third of  what we humans consume, depends on bee pollination - their 
plight is  deeply connected to ours.  The honeybee population is  shrinking 
fast, having declined 35% from 2006 – 2009, threatened by  mites, habitat 
loss, pesticides and the mysterious colony collapse  disorder that has 
devastated their numbers.  These photographs  help us appreciate bees on another 
-usually unseen - level, through this  artist’s sensitive vision. Gaining a 
deeper understanding of their  hidden beauty and structure will no doubt point 
us towards the direction  of conservation. 
 

 
“  I offer these photographs in celebration, respect, and gratitude for all 
 that they do and are.” 
 
- Rose-Lynn  Fisher from her book,  “BEE” (2010 Princeton Architectural  
Press)
 

 

 
The  photographs will be on view through November  11th.
 

 

 
 




 

 

 

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