Now at the ArtPort Gallery
Spring Colors by David MoynahanH2O: Photographs by David Moynahan
from March 28th – May 28th, 2012
Public Reception: April 13, 2012 from 6:00-7:30
As a conservation photographer, David Moynahan's goal is to help raise awareness of the natural and beautiful world that still surrounds us. At this time of spiraling environmental crises, many people are disconnected from nature. By adding his work to the efforts of environmental groups, scientists, and policy makers - honoring the old adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" - he believes that we can re-inspire awe, respect, and stewardship of our remaining wild places.
A Florida native, David grew up in Miami, with Biscayne Bay, the Everglades and Keys as his extended backyard. He spent his youth exploring the seashores and studying the creatures that lived there. Early on, he began to paint and photograph seascapes, fishes, birds, and abstract compositions in nature. Photography became the basis of his journal-keeping as he explored biology, medicine, art, travel, and parenting into adulthood. Over the past decade, his love and respect for the natural world, eye for composition, and his long photographic experience have converged into the striking images that make up his work today.
In H2O, David celebrates water as the key to all life on our planet. In one collection of selected images, called “Fire and Ice,” David extols water’s varied forms – ice, snow, steam, fluid, fog, mist – in selected images from visits to Iceland and Yellowstone National Park. In a second collection of images called, “Water’s Edge-FL,” he captures the lush diversity of the Sunshine State’s rivers, springs, lakes, marshes, sinkholes, and vast coast.
A public reception for H2O is scheduled at the ArtPort Gallery for Friday, April 13, 2012 from 6:00-7:30pm. Guests are asked to park in long-term parking and present parking tickets at the gallery for complimentary validation.
The ArtPort Gallery itself is located in the Tallahassee Regional Airport, 3300 Capital Circle SW, and is open daily from 8:00 am until 11:30 pm. All exhibits are in this space are free and open to the public.
This exhibit is one of over a dozen annual exhibitions curated by the Council on Culture & Arts. The exhibit is part of the City of Tallahassee’s Art in Public Places program. For more information about this exhibition, upcoming exhibitions, or the Art in Public Places program, contact Amanda Karioth Thompson at COCA, (850) 224-2500 or amanda@cocanet.org.
