Casey Sills at Park Schreck

Untitled #158, 2012.

In my work, sky and earth are a stage where nature and culture collide. Elements of wood, steel, cement, bolts, wire, paint, asphalt, gravel, rock, sand, grasses, plants, and trees coalesce in a form both abstract and concrete. I seek that fortuitous confluence of elements that form the unique chemistry of an instant that both defines, and is redefined by the printed image. - Casey Sills

Sills' photography features subject matter that is both familiar and unfamiliar. His landscapes are the places we pass on long drives, or the parts of our cities, towns, countrysides that we take for granted and spend little time with. His photography gives the viewer a sense of the privileged artistic eye that has an ability to identify beauty in the common, or as he puts it, "the subtle place where the fortuitous occurs and the marvelous emerges."

Sills' work does not exploit the capabilities of digital processing, but instead utilizes his extensive background in analogue photography to achieve truthful captures. His transition to digital photography awarded him the freedom to capture and create prolifically. With this freedom he has amassed a large body of work that is well worth seeing.

Park Schreck is located at 1747 North Avenue. The two man show "Contemporary Landscapes", in which Sills will show alongside artist and curator Dan Schreck, is scheduled to open on Friday July 19th from 7-9PM. The show will remain up and open to the public until September 2nd.      

Click here to visit the artist's website and click here to visit Park Schreck's website.