DALLAS AREA EVENT BENEFITING COMMON GROUND RELIEF

CALENDAR / EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

[DALLAS] Acclaimed photographer Dan Burkholder has chosen Sun to Moon Gallery in Carrollton for the premier release of his new photography book, The Color of Loss: An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans after Katrina, published by the University of Texas Press. In The Color of Loss, Burkholder presents a powerful new way to see ravaged homes, schools, churches, schools and businesses of New Orleans. Using an innovative digital photographic technology called high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, in which multiple exposures are artistically blended to bring out details in the shadows and highlights that would be hidden in conventional photographs, he creates images that resemble paintings in their richness of color and profusion of detail. Far more intense and poetic than purely documentary photographs, Burkholder’s images lure viewers to linger over the artifacts of people’s lives. Seeing a child’s red wagon abandoned in a mud-caked room or the moldy picture of Jesus helps viewers more fully understand the havoc thrust upon the people of New Orleans. In the deserted, sinisterly beautiful rooms depicted in The Color of Loss, Dan Burkholder reveals the hidden truth of the splendor and texture of New Orleans that was washed away in the flood.

WHAT: PREMIER BOOK RELEASE, ARTISTS’ RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING

“The Color of Loss: An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans After Katrina,” by Dan Burkholder
Published by University of Texas Press
The artist’s book-signing reception will open the fine art photographic print exhibition of post-Katrina prints by Dan Burkholder and unique post-Katrina Bromoil prints by Jill Skupin Burkholder.

TIME: 6 – 9 p.m.

DATE: Thursday, March 27, 2008 and continuing on Saturdays and Sundays through April 13. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. [March 29, April 5 and April 12: noon to 5 p.m. and March 30, April 6 and April 13: 1 to 5 p.m.]

PLACE: Sun to Moon Gallery, 3001 Keller Springs Rd., Carrollton, Texas 75006 972.481.1199

BENEFITTING: Common Ground Relief (www.commongroundrelief.org)
Portions of the proceeds will benefit Common Ground Relief, an organization that seeks to provide short term relief for victims of hurricane disasters in the gulf coast region, and long term support in rebuilding the affected communities in the New Orleans area.