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The Pikes Peak Region's Guide to Arts and CultureTuesday Feb 07, 2012Colorado Springs Area Weather

    VISUAL ARTS

    Extreme Ice Survey

    Extreme Ice Survey

    Presented by Smokebrush Foundation for the Arts at Smokebrush Gallery and Foundation for the Arts

    February 5-March 26, 2010


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    Join us First Friday, February 5 from 5-8 p.m. for the opening reception for Boulder photographer James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey, a sublime and compelling series of large-scale photographs and time-lapse animations.

    The Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) brings art and science together with stunningly sublime photographic imagery and time-lapse animations illustrating the rapid changes happening to Earth's glacial ice. It is at once visually captivating, educational, and compelling. And it is the perfect beginning to Smokebrush Gallery's 2010 programming. EIS is the most wide-ranging glacier study ever conducted using ground-based, real-time photography. EIS uses time-lapse photography, conventional photography, and video to document the rapid changes now occurring on the Earth's glacial ice.

    James Balog and his EIS team have specially customized and installed 27 time-lapse cameras at 15 sites in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, and the Rocky Mountains. EIS supplements this ongoing record with annual repeat photography in Iceland, the Alps, and Bolivia. Mr. Balog recently presented his work at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen in December 2009, was featured on the cover of National Geographic and was recently appointed as the ECO-Ambassador to the Samsung Corporation for the Vancouver Olympics, and his one-hour documentary will release this Spring on PBS's NOVA. These credentials merely support the value and timeliness of this contemporary image-maker's work. Although the science world has given Mr. Balog more attention than the art world at this point, the work itself shares no exclusive borders with either world and certainly stands up on its own in the gallery and museum settings..


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        Smokebrush Gallery and Foundation for the Arts

        218 West Colorado Ave.
        Colorado Springs, CO 80903

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        Tickets: Free

        Info Phone: 719 444 1012

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        Dates:
        February 5-March 26, 2010

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        Monday-Friday, 12-5pm, Feb. 8 ? Mar. 26 (plus open Sat. Feb. 6 & Sat. Mar. 6), and Fri. Mar. 5, 5-8pm

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