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Volcan Mountain #41 — Robert Treat
This dual exhibition showcases the evocative photography of Ken Rosenthal and Robert Treat, who both channel their emotional and intellectual engagement with nature into their work. Rosenthal's and Treat's images capture the essence of natural landscapes, offering viewers a profound connection to the spirit of the environments they depict.
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Ken Rosenthal received a BA in still photography from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and an MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His artwork is represented in the US by Klompching Gallery, New York; Etherton Gallery, Tucson; and Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco.
Rosenthal's photographs are in many public and private collections internationally, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Art Institute of Chicago; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Portrait Gallery, London; Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; Portland Art Museum; and the Wittliff Collections' Southwest and Mexican Photography Collection, San Marcos, Texas, which holds a major collection of his work.
Since 2002, his work has been featured in more than 150 solo and group exhibitions internationally. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Klompching Gallery, NY; Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires; El Cabildo de la Ciudad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina; Espacio Foto, Montevideo, Uruguay; Etherton Gallery in Tucson, AZ; Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara; and De Santos Gallery, Houston.
Rosenthal's monograph Days On The Mountain, with essays by George Slade and Rosenthal, was published by Dark Spring Press in April 2019 in trade and limited edition book + print sets. A deluxe edition with a silver gelatin print will be released later in 2019. His first book, Ken Rosenthal: Photographs 2001–2009, was released in 2011 and includes an introductory text by curator Rebecca Senf. Photographs 2001–2009 was included on photo-eye's Best Books of 2011 list. A hardbound limited edition of 50 with two toned silver gelatin prints, designed and produced by Cloverleaf Press, was released in 2012 and is now out of print.
Robert Treat is a California artist who spent his childhood growing up in rural Ohio. Being an only child, nature had always been a close companion to him. He spent many a summer afternoon closely exploring and observing the colors and forms of his outdoor environment.
Robert's formal training is in architecture and fine arts from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. After graduation, his art interests expanded to include large-format photography and film animation. Along with his photographic and painting career, he has been involved in the Hollywood animation industry for over thirty years. Over time, he has had the opportunity to study under a variety of creative individuals, including Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, and Chuck Jones.
Primarily nature-oriented, Robert's photographs exhibit a strong structural awareness, often verging into unconscious abstraction. These concerns of nature and structure also become the basis of his paintings. Working with primitive materials such as beeswax and asphalt, Robert's paintings result in sensuous tactile surfaces and strong active shapes. For him, it is a way to recover a primary sense of self—a quality that tends to get repressed by today's modernity in general and media representation in particular.
Robert currently resides in San Diego.
