Frank Yamrus:
The Dehon Ice Fields - Current Photographs

March 2004
Reception: Thursday, 4 March 2004 5:30 – 7:30 pm

In “The Dehon Ice Fields” Frank Yamrus continues his photographic relationship with water’s ability to transform. Originally conceived as a topographical project to capture remaining traces of the last glaciers in Canada’s Columbia Ice Fields, the project evolved. Instead, these photographs were made from massive blocks of ice in the artist’s San Francisco Dehon Street studio. Yamrus not only documented the natural melting process, but also interfered with tools, such as a blowtorch and chain saw–water and light were altered to define lines, textures and shapes. The resulting gelatin silver prints are large-scale abstractions representing these processes.

Frank Yamrus’ work has been included in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Selected public collections: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His last series of twenty intimate portraits, “Rapture”, exhibited in September 2002 at the Gregory Lind Gallery, was recently acquired by the Kinsey Institute. He lives and works in San Francisco and Provincetown, Massachusetts.