January 7th - February 7th, 2015

Reception: Thursday January 8, 5:30-7:30pm

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to present "Nurture" an exhibition of new color photography by J. John Priola.

Priola's photographic series "Nurture" is an ode to the intersections of uncertain human activity and the  resolute forces of nature.  Priola focuses his attention on unnoticed natural events, where the habits or interventions of humans (be they hasty urban gardening, unsophisticated architecture or careless oversight)  measure up against the persevering dignity and ironic beauty of city plant-life as it is controlled by planters, gardens and parks.

For over twenty years, J. John Priola's practice has demonstrated photography's ability to tell a story like no other medium.  Focusing on objects or settings easily overlooked, his photographs allow the information depicted to speak on behalf of a bigger narrative or meaningful history.  They are references to truth, even if they provide only a fragment of the information, a moment easily missed.

J. John Priola teaches photography at the San Francisco Art Institute (from where he holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography.)  His photographs are represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.