J. JOHN PRIOLA Farm Sites and Other Work May 4 - 28, 2005 Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of new photographic works by J. John Priola. Farm Sites and Other Works will feature black and white prints from a new landscape series complemented by a new suite of miniature horizon photographs. Born in 1960, J. John Priola holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been shown at the Fraenkel Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago and Marc Foxx Gallery in Los Angeles. 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. The show will also feature a video work, a projection of the Empire State building that deceptively mimics the static serenity of a still photograph. Priola�s photographs offer a moment to the viewer, an opportunity to notice the very worthwhile qualities of the overlooked. Ordinary objects or places are given a formal transformation in the hushed starkness of his presentation. A broken object, a sliver of landscape or a detail of a building, are presented as secrets-- privileged information on the true nature and history of the subject. Priola�s monograph Once Removed provides a beautiful panorama of his early photographic themes. "For what is traced in these photographs is not merely the object, or the sign of its residual physical presence avant the photograph, but the echo of its historical resonances and place in time." , -Andy Grundberg in his introduction to Once Removed A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, May 5th from 5:30- 7:30 p.m. More images of J.John Priola's Farm Sites series can be seen on his website www.jjohnpriola.com Above: Road 17, 2004, 22-3/4" x 35- 3/4" framed, gelatin silver print