 Quonset Hut - Billings "One Hundred and One Black and Whites" a retrospective of Paul Whiting's photographs, can be seen May 1 - 31. Whiting will give a Gallery Talk on Thursday, May 15 at 7 p.m.
Whiting focuses on vernacular architecture and our built environment. He was born in Washington, D.C., and lived in Baltimore, Milwaukee, Chicago, St.Paul, Geneva, Switzerland, and Montclair, NJ before he graduated from high school. Each place drew his attention to what made that place unique:streetscapes and byways, doorknobs and doorways, buildings and bridges. His camera captures transoms, ghost signs, and ornaments that escape most of us.
Whiting enjoys the simplicity of good design. Clean lines and subtle shapes are redrawn with his lens. A boat, a fence line, a nail become outlines and shadows.
His use of tone value, deep black through the grays to white, exhibit his talent in expressing mystery and meaning in what he portrays. His palette pulls us into new visions of the ordinary.
Whiting is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in physics and mathematics from St.Olaf College, Minnesota and has a Master of Arts in Teaching degree in French from Northwestern University, Chicago. He later pursued studies in media and photography at Columbia College, Chicago, Ill.
Come enjoy a trip through time and space with Whiting's new and old photographs, seeing buildings that no longer exist, objects you never noticed, or places you've never visited in "One Hundred and One Black and Whites" May 1-31 at Flatiron Gallery, 2A Custer Avenue, Billings (www.flatirongallery.com). Call 256-7791 for an appointment or stop in Thursday - Saturday 11- 4 p.m.
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