Serrano Gallery, in conjunction with FOTOFEST Biennial 2020, presents
A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
March 7 -28, 2020
Opening Reception
6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Serrano Gallery
Silver Street
2000 Edwards Street, #317
Houston, TX 77007
T: (713) 724-0709
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JOHN BERNHARD: A RETROSPECTIVE
John Bernhard is a Swiss American artist, photographer and writer who traveled North America extensively before settling in Houston, Texas in 1980. For more than three decades he has chosen the medium of photography to explore the everyday world from new perspectives, breaking away into different pathways of artistic expression. He continues to devote all of his energy taking photographs and bringing them together to enhance their meaning with visual interplay.
Beginning in 1985 with a solo exhibition at the Houston Center for Photography, Bernhard has had more than 30 solo shows, three museum exhibitions, and many collective exhibitions throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Bernhard's photographs are also included in 20 museum’s permanent collection, such as the Denver Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Musée de la Photographie, Belgium, Musée de L’Elysée, Switzerland, Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark, New Mexico Museum of Arts, Pushkin Museum of Art, Russia, Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
ALFONSO BONILLA: SPECTRAL NARRATIVES
Alfonso Bonilla is a Colombian multimedia designer with extensive experience teaching in China and Singapore. Alfonso is also a photographer who has spent many years doing research and experimentation around graphic photography and its possibilities as a pictorial language of expression.
He uses the tools of graphic design in combination with a particular image exposure that through overlays and a subjective configuration of each piece seeks to communicate its message, through a reconfiguration of reality of great chromatic richness.
Alfonso Bonilla's work resonates with contemporary audiences who are hungry for images that move them in a world that is replete with media and images. His work is an unmistakable sign of the times in which we live.