2008 Woodie Awards
Former student displays work at local art gallery
By Dara Salley
Rocket Assistant Life/A&E Editor
Issue date: 10/21/05 Section: Entertainment
An exhibition of the work of former Slippery Rock University student and acclaimed photographer Christopher Rolinson will be shown at the Martha Gault Gallery.
Rolinson is a Slippery Rock graduate who now teaches at Point Park College and photographs for several publications. The exhibit being shown is a collection of photographs of different natural scenes from national parks around the country.
The exhibition is entitled, "National Parks" and includes such places as the battlefields of Gettysburg, Dolly Sods Wilderness in West Virginia and Bryce Canyon in Utah.
"Christopher Rolinson's work has an incredible feel. They pick up the patterns, textures and colors of nature in a beautiful way," photography student Carrie Moore said.
Rolinson used the play of light to his advantage in bringing these colors and textures to life.
However, it is not just this flair for the abstract that sets Rolinson's pictures apart from other nature photographers. Many photographers seek to exclude and ignore anything man made in their photography. Rolinson embraces such objects as highways and power lines as part of the landscape.
"I took several pictures along Mt. Carmel Road, the road that connects Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon. It contained seven openings that pierce the wall of the tunnel and form beautiful vistas as you pass into the rugged outback of Zion," Rolinson said.
"Rolinson is willing to go to places and take pictures of remote places, which makes his work fresh and enjoyable," Moore said.
Rolinson is a Slippery Rock graduate who now teaches at Point Park College and photographs for several publications. The exhibit being shown is a collection of photographs of different natural scenes from national parks around the country.
The exhibition is entitled, "National Parks" and includes such places as the battlefields of Gettysburg, Dolly Sods Wilderness in West Virginia and Bryce Canyon in Utah.
"Christopher Rolinson's work has an incredible feel. They pick up the patterns, textures and colors of nature in a beautiful way," photography student Carrie Moore said.
Rolinson used the play of light to his advantage in bringing these colors and textures to life.
However, it is not just this flair for the abstract that sets Rolinson's pictures apart from other nature photographers. Many photographers seek to exclude and ignore anything man made in their photography. Rolinson embraces such objects as highways and power lines as part of the landscape.
"I took several pictures along Mt. Carmel Road, the road that connects Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon. It contained seven openings that pierce the wall of the tunnel and form beautiful vistas as you pass into the rugged outback of Zion," Rolinson said.
"Rolinson is willing to go to places and take pictures of remote places, which makes his work fresh and enjoyable," Moore said.
