Mr. Pool, Inc. Gallery,

now showing...

Dan Asher (NYC), Christopher Gruver (BOULDER) and Original Photogravure by Edward Curtis.

2347 South Street
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone 303-443-0824

A special thanks to:           Gallery Sink

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Dan Asher
Icebergs, Photographs and Drawings

Mr. Pool is pleased to present the recent work of Dan Asher's Icebergs. The photographs are printed by Reed Photo-Imaging. Blown up to a large scale 40x60" and are hung as if floating around you in the gallery. Asher has captured the awesome beauty of the huge chunks of ice with their glowing blue interiors.

Dan, a long time New Yorker traveled to the South Pole multiple times in the late nineties to make images of icebergs. "The Icebergs come at you in several levels. One they are very simple yet very powerful images, overwhelming in size and the color field of all blue in the ice and water, they are very meditative and endless in design and texture" . They also raise conciseness to environmental concerns. These dazzling photos are not made simply as an art-world version of what you might see in the pages of National Geographic. Asher's project has a provocative edge that sparks discussions of melting polar ice caps and global warming.

Dan has recently shown this work at the Paula Cooper Gallery in NY and most recently in Venice Italy.

Edward Sheriff Curtis
Photographer, Ethnologist, Friend of the American Indian

Born in 1868 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis became one of America's finest photographers and ethnologists. When the Curtis family moved to Port Orchard, Washington in 1887, Edward's gift for photography led him to an investigation of the Indians living on the Seattle waterfront. His portrait of Chief Seattle's daughter, Princess Angeline, won Curtis the highest award in a photographic contest.

Having become well-known for his work-with the Indians, Curtis participated in the 1899 Harriman expedition to Alaska as one of two official photographers. He then accompanied George Bird Grinell, editor of Forest and Stream, on a trip to northern Montana. There they witnessed the deeply sacred Sundance of the Piegan and Blackfoot tribes. Travelling on horseback, with their pack horses trailing behind, they emerged from the mountains to view the valley floor massed with over a thousand teepees - an awesome sight to Curtis and one that transformed his life. Everything fell into place at that moment: it was clear to him that he was to record, with pen and camera, the life of the North American Indian.

Edward S. Curtis devoted the next 30 years photographing and documenting over eighty,tribes west of the Mississippi, from the Mexican border to northern Alaska. His project won support from such prominent and powerful figures as President Theodore Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan. From 1911-1914 Curtis also produced and directed a silent film based on the mythology of the Rawakiutl Indians of the Pacific Northwest.

Upon its completion in 1930, the work, entitled The North American Indian, consisted of 20 volumes, each containing 75 hand--pressed photogravures and 300 pages of text. Each volume was accompanied by a corresponding portfolio containing at least 36 photogravures.

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Christopher Gruver

Christopher Gruver was born in Texas and moved to New York as a young man to pursue a modeling career. During his tenure in front of the camera he was introduced to the techniques of creative imagery by the world's dominant fashion photographer, Bruce Weber. While working with many talented photographers all over the world during the next seven years, his eye for photography began to bloom.

An avid lover of nature and the outdoors, Christopher marries skill with instinct as he explores the beauty of flowers. Drawing on his intuitive link to aesthetic and essence, Christopher creates stirring compositions that reveal the delicacy of nature.

His works are displayed at the Silver Light Gallery in Carmel, Ca., the Falling Rock Gallery in Sedona, Az. the Victoria Boyce Galleries in Scottsdale and Tucson, Az. and at the Art and Soul Gallery in Boulder, Co. His works have also been shown in an extended installation at the Sunflower Restaurant in Boulder, Colorado, the Joyce Robins Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and in the Open Studios Art Tour in Boulder in 2001 and 2002.

For more information on Christopher Gruver Photography and to experience this unique and profound work, please visit www.christophergruver.com or call 303-888-4814.

Christopher Gruver resides in Boulder, Colorado. He will be present at the opening.

For Licensing considerations please contact Alaska Momma, Inc. in New York at 212-679-4404 or by email: licensing@alaskamomma.com

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