Catherine J. Davis: The Third Coast
@ Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 1st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, July 21st
Filter Photo is pleased to present “The Third Coast,” a solo exhibition of work by Catherine J. Davis, at Filter Space gallery.
“The Third Coast” is a photographic project that explores the distinct, vernacular landscape of the Gulf Coast region: newly-built houses rising like monoliths above the tides, industrial pipelines subsumed by muddy water, palm trees as stylized icons, and fiberglass sharks marking toothless tourist displays. Thematically, David’s photographs investigate the in-between spaces, where the highly constructed experience of the shore begins to breakdown. Tonally, they reflect places caught in the endless process of development and dissolution.
Stretching some 1,600 miles from the mouth of the Rio Grande in Texas to the Florida Everglades, the US Gulf Coast is vast and complex. Buffered by warm, shallow seas, the water’s edge is consistently humid and mild with abundant sunshine and ample precipitation. Land here is naturally flat, rising on average a few dozen feet above the ocean’s surface. The region is an innate patchwork of both natural and built environments, a tangled combination of history and geography, culture and ecology that reflects an intimate and ever-evolving relationship between man, land, and sea. More than just describing the topography, “The Third Coast” explores the Gulf Coast’s visual vocabulary, its sense of place, and the recurrent themes that together create the area’s distinct material and cultural identity.
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