ArtScene: Continuing and Recommended

2007 Vol. 26, No. 8

“CONCHA no.1”, 2005

Certain Places

Perhaps due to the absence of any human traces the lush color photographs by Catharine Stebbins seem somehow haunted. Without the reference to humanity, these intense images exist in a timeless place where weeds or grass or twigs or a ripple on water are the most significant things going. Addressing the overlooked within the immensity of the L.A. experience is not a new topic, but these 40" x 40" shallow focus images (referred to by Stebbins as eco-tableau vivant and organic mise en scene) find their own elegant perspective

(drkrm gallery, Northeast Los Angeles).