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.

Born in Kingston, PA. Received MBA from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. Lives and works in San Francisco, CA and Provincetown, MA.

Recent solo exhibitions at Sarah Morthland Gallery, NY; Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Rhubarb-Rhubarb Photo Festival, Birmingham, England; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR; Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX and Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA.

Participated in group shows at Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Russian Republic; Cornel Museum of Fine Art, Winter Park, FL; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL; Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO; SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA; Discoveries of the Fotoplace, Houston, TX; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA and Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM.

Selected Public Collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL and The Kinsey Institute of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.