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Photo Montage Series (Gloucester: The Gritty and The Glorious)

This is a new experimental mixed media series of work begun in November 2012. Each piece is a photo montage (some containing up to 20 different photographs) of places and objects that can be seen while exploring our nation's oldest working seaport: Gloucester, MA on Cape Ann.

Gloucester was discovered in 1606 by Samuel de Champlain, at which time he named it Le Beau Port, meaning beautiful port. The name changed many times before Prince Charles christened it Cape Anne (now spelled Cape Ann), after his mother. Gloucester was founded by the "Dorchester Company" an expedition of men from Dorchester, County Dorset, England, chartered by James I in 1623. It was one of the first English settlements in what would become the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and predates both Salem in 1626 and Boston in 1630.

Whether you live here, have visited Gloucester or are just fascinated by the sea and working seaports, these images contain intriguing abstract appearing, but on closer inspection, recognizable objects and surfaces, including: rusted boat hulls, peeling paint, chains, trawler bobbins, scallop shells, cracked pavement, stone walls, granite, lobster buoys, tidal pools, sand patterns, machinery parts, historic buildings and more.

These original one-of-a-kind photo montages, printed on 12"x16" 100% cotton rag fine art paper, hand-tinted and varnished to enhance luminosity and preservation, and framed in 16x20x1-1/4" deep black wood shadowbox frames, create unique and striking art pieces. The original pieces which are three-dimensional, with the upper layer(s) of the image printed separately, mounted on black foam board and floated above the layer(s) beneath are $500 for the 16x20 framed pieces and $1,200 for the 24x36 original 3d quadriptych montages. Framed 2d Limited Edition giclee prints of the montages are available for $150, and unframed 12x16 Limited Edition montage prints are $75 (Limited Edition of 25 of each montage print image, except Glorious Gloucester and Annisquam in White which have a Limited Edition of 50 each). All montage images are also available on 5x7 fine art note cards for $5.

Thirteen of the images in this series will be featured in the 2014 "The Gritty and The Glorious" calendar, available this summer at Khan Studio on Rocky Neck and online.