Jim Curnyn: San Joaquin Valley Fog – Fresno California

February 1st – 27th, 2025

Opening Reception, Friday, February 7th from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Refreshments served

Dot Dotson’s Gallery
1886 Willamette St., Eugene, OR 97401
(541) 485-1771
Monday through Friday, 10 am – 5:30 pm, Saturday 10 am – 1 pm
dotdotsons.com
Free and open to the public

Photographer, Jim Curnyn’s, use of fog as a light source is well documented in this photography exhibit. In the use of day fog you will notice the blocking out of unwanted background, objects in the middle ground appear as various shades of grey, and the isolated subject stands out. In this exhibit are rural, farm, city, and railroad themes with a speeding Amtrak Passenger train frozen on a railroad bridge with the background blocked out, empty railroad tracks at the downtown Fresno Amtrak Station, various city street scenes under foggy weather, some scenes of people in fog, and some attention given to rural farm scenes.

Spectrum Art Gallery member, Jim Curnyn, is a Fresno based fine art photographer whose work encompasses cityscapes, farm scenes, architecture, railroad environment, Fresno historical landmarks, Washington DC Area, West Virginia and France.

Much of his work is done in dense fog as can be seen in this exhibit at the Dot Dotsons Gallery. Jim incorporates the use of fog in his photographs as a means to isolate his subject by blocking out the unwanted background, muting distant objects into various shades of grey forms, causing the viewer’s eye to go to the isolated subject. Photographs made in foggy conditions create mood and can become a secondary subject to the photograph itself.

jimcurnynphotography.com