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Cultural Memory:
Fine Art and Rough Art meet and Shake Hands

The Photolab Gallery announces an exhibit of black and white and color pigment photographs, titled “Cultural Memory” by East Bay photographer, Mary Ann Hayden.

The show will run from November 10 to December 28, 2007 at the Photolab Gallery, 2235 Fifth Street in Berkeley.

The exhibit is open to the public, accessible and free of charge.

A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, November 10th, from 5 to 7 pm.

Photographer Mary Ann Hayden, also a painter, began doing photography in 2001. An experienced and accomplished painter, Ms. Hayden has exhibited work for over four decades, so photography comes relatively recently for her. In her current exhibit, Cultural Memory, we see an intriguing pairing of experience - both the photographer’s and society’s: painting and photography, landscape and graffiti, architecture and sculpture, and so on. She says: “The image (pairs) in this show…have been conceived at the intersection of historical necessity and cultural memory.”

Mary Ann Hayden has a BFA from Washington University and, in addition to many exhibitions across the United States, she has also designed and printed letterpress books and one of a kind, limited edition artist’s books represented in over a dozen university and private collections in the US and in Europe. She is represented by SFMOMA Artists' Gallery.


For more information
Contact: Andrea McLaughlin (510) 644-1400
Mary Ann Hayden (510) 326-8005

PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARY ANN HAYDEN

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ABOUT THE PHOTOLAB GALLERY

The Photolab Gallery is a not for profit gallery space made available to selected photographers to showcase and sell their work.  The Gallery provides the San Francisco Bay Area with an opportunity to expand its exposure to current excellent photographic work and local artists and to  buy directly from the artists.


The Photolab Gallery has shown over 120 exhibits since 1991, featuring the work of over 115 photographers including several artists who have been invited to show more than once. Many photographers whose work was shown in the Gallery have gone on to be represented by professional art galleries.

For more information about current or past exhibits or to
learn how to submit a portfolio contact Andrea McLaughlin.

Photo Credits:
Photos in top banner by Charles Klein and Margaretta Mitchell,
photos for exhibit by Mary Ann Hayden

All other photos this page by Andrea McLaughlin