Retrospective

The first exhibit of the Emmanuel Gallery's summer run commemorates Gary Lynch, a Denver-based photographer and educator who died suddenly in 2005. A graduate of the Metropolitan State College of Denver, Lynch received his MFA in photography from the University of Denver. As a board member to the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Lynch instructed photography courses at all three colleges on the Auraria Campus.

In collaboration with the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, the Emmanuel Gallery organized and arranged the exhibition, which runs through July 20. The gallery houses selections from four prominent series of Lynch's work.

At the forefront of the showcase is Lynch's carbon print work, work for which he received a grant and which adopts a technique that dates back to 1864 - one of the oldest photographic processes. The carbon print series, entitled No Dice Nada, No Toca Nada, comments on the nature of insignificance and emptiness as they are related to technology and modern life. With the side-by-side, similarly sized images, Lynch offers cropped closes-ups of eyes, lips, noses and hands as they touch and support the face. Translating to "Say nothing, touch nothing," the work promotes the question of how individuality can quickly fracture into isolation.

The gallery presents work from three additional Lynch series: Identity, Et en Arcadia Ego and Internal Dialogue. In Identity, Lynch depicts dark faces with select strips or spots of light. "Secrets," an individual image, has a dark profile with a sliver of light upon the lips; "It's all about me" has light cast brightly over the face; and "Schizophrenia," a triptych, has multiple faces scattered with light. Rather than standing as a series of portraits, Identities is meant to pay regard to elements of the human personality.

Moving from the breakdown of character to the breakdown of life, Et en Arcadia Ego deals with the social, political and personal aspects of death. In showcasing a singular work of the series - "Nothing is lost but it changes" - this portion of the Lynch experience lasts with the viewer, calling on the exhibit's themes of re-formation, changeability and society as it is projected upon the individual.

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