The first exhibition is a sound installation by Steve Peters accompanied by the photographs and unique artist books of Raymond Meeks. The exhibition runs from September 7th through Saturday, October 20th, 2007.
The sound installation by Steve Peters is Here-ings: A Sonic Geohistory. In 1999 Steve Peters, a composer/sound artist who lives in Seattle, Washington, undertook a project at The Land, a venue for site-specific environmental art in central New Mexico. Wishing to develop an intimate relationship with the site rather than impose his own noise upon it, he devoted himself to the act of listening to the sounds that were present during each hour of the day and night over the course of a full year. Spanning the disciplines of acoustic ecology, environmental and performance art, poetry, sculpture, installation, and contemplative practice, Here-ings documents that experience of immersion in a particular landscape, examining the gradual process of becoming intimately connected with Place. In sharing his findings, Peters encourages us to offer our own attention to the subtle poetry that surrounds us. His work reminds us that, beneath the surface of the commonplace, the extraordinary lies waiting to be revealed.
Raymond Meeks was born 1963 and raised in central Ohio. His regard for song and short story, especially those centered around impermanence or loss, are at the center of his work. In 2004, Nazraeli Press published his first monograph, Sound of Summer Running, with texts by Forrest Gander and Rick Bass. He continues to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Nazraeli will soon publish a second monograph titled A Clearing. Raymond Meeks’s photographs are included in numerous private and public collections including the George Eastman House, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Columbus Museum of Fine Arts, the Julia J. Norrell collection and the Sir Elton John collection. He currently lives in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley of with his wife and children.