Derek Jecxz
“Acts of Nature”

September 10 – October 3
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 10th, 6 to 9 PM

“Acts of Nature” is an unpretentious mixture of both film and digital landscape photographs. Derek creates his art while on “photographic journeys” where he travels to remote locations, such as Canada’s Northwest Territories, Labrador or obscure locations throughout the US. Derek drives thousands of miles to get to these places, focusing for weeks on end on only one thing: making the photograph. He has zigged-zagged across the US and Canada multiple times to create his body of photographic artwork. For Derek, creating photographs is not a process that is easily planned out; he makes his photographs by getting a feel for a location and then letting go and allowing the creative part of his subconscious to take over. According to Derek, “once in that zone my Hasselblad camera becomes an extension of my body, I’m no longer aware that it’s merely a tool. It’s a part of me, just like my hand or arm.” Central to the exhibition’s theme are photographs that represent natural landscape scenes from across North America, as Derek found them, making the photograph as though nature was unaware that someone was looking on.

Location: Twenty-Two Gallery, 236 S. 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
www.twenty-twogallery.com
215-772-1911

Hours: Wed. – Sun.; Noon – 6 pm and by appointment