Many of you know our long association and collaboration with our friends from Conveyor Arts and we are so excited to team up with them once again to provide a platform for them to produce & curate their annual Exhibition Grant.
Pine Tree Ballads marks the third show organized as part of the Conveyor Exhibition Grant, an annual opportunity which awards one photographic-based artist with the unique opportunity to produce and exhibit a recent project with the curatorial, print and production resources of Conveyor Arts.
Bonyenne, 2012
Sakaki, 2013
Pine Tree Ballads is a poetic vision of land, family, and time.
A small farmhouse on Gray’s Point is surrounded by a dark forest of ancient pines struggling against the inces- sant nor’easter gusts of the Atlantic Ocean. History creaks in the swaying limbs of this land where generations of my family have discovered moments of wisdom, adventure, fear, and the miraculous. In this place, stories have arisen from the mouths of both the young and old, and over time have become the essence of a family’s identity. Pine Tree Ballads offers one of many poetic interpretations of my experience on this homestead. It is a unique memoir weaving the magical aura of an ancient, shared, historical record with the mysterious dreams met on dark moonless nights when one does not know if their eyes are open or close.
Paul Thulin is a photographer whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, in venues in- cluding: Miami Scope, Candela Gallery, Chicago Art Fair, and the Toronto Art Fair. He is represented by Modernbook Gallery in San Francisco, California, and ADA Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia and works as the Graduate Director of the Department of Photography and Film at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Conveyor Arts is an organization dedicated to supporting photographic-based artists through production, exhibition and publication of new work in the medium. For information about the Conveyor Exhibtion Grant visit www.conveyorarts.org
