[Squishy] Trees of Angkor: Photographs from Cambodia - PRESS RELEASE

[Eric Pritchard]

Hi everyone. I hope some of you will be able to make it to my show next 
month. Please feel free to pass this press release along to all your 
friends, neighbors, coworkers, and wealthy art collecting 
acquaintances! Free proof print to whoever brings the best Burning Man 
vehicle to the opening. Plus, there'll be good wine, I promise ;)

Cheers, e.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Trees of Angkor: Photographs from Cambodia
San Francisco Gallery Debut of Eric Alan Pritchard
On View August 4th through September 5th, 2005
The Lee Gallery, 577 Geary Street, San Francisco 94102 (415) 674-9500
Monday through Friday, Noon-5 p.m. and Sat-Sun by appointment
Opening reception August 4th, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (July 12, 2005) -- Eric Alan Pritchard makes his San 
Francisco gallery debut with a solo exhibit of thirty-two large-scale 
black and white photographs exploring the relationship between the 
crumbling temples of Angkor and the towering strangler figs, banyan 
trees, and pervasive vines that are slowly overtaking them.

Pritchard’s richly detailed photographs, a blend of traditional film 
and cutting-edge digital techniques, are printed with quad-tone pigment 
inks on 100% cotton watercolor paper, producing a lush surface texture 
and exceptional depth that reveals both the luminous glow and darkly 
obscured riot of detail that are the embodiment of Angkor’s mystery.

The Angkor temple complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located 190 
miles from Cambodia’s capital of Phnom-Penh, includes over 100 
monuments built between 790 and 1307 A.D. by the ancient Khmer 
civilization, spread over almost forty square miles. A unique mix of 
Hindu and Buddhist architecture, aligned with the stars and the spring 
equinox, Angkor is a physically overwhelming and extraordinarily 
diverse location of enigmatic beauty.

About Eric Alan Pritchard

San Francisco-based fine art photographer Eric Alan Pritchard, whose 
early work focused on traditional landscape genres and travel 
documentary, has developed a unique approach to nudes and organic 
objects, evolving his style into one of delicate shapes and luminous 
abstractions. After many years of shooting exclusively in black and 
white, Eric began to work in color again on the waters of Southern 
Thailand in 2004. Most recently, Eric has been exploring a form of 
reductive minimalism in his photographs of the horizon made at his 
beachfront home overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Pritchard’s popular 2003 exhibition of abstract nudes – “repose” – at 
the Bolinas Museum in Northern California gained significant attention. 
A group of “repose” images was recently purchased by a luxury hotel in 
Miami Beach, and The Contemporaries, an art-collection group for young 
professionals that selected Eric as their featured artists this month, 
is currently exhibiting a selection of his nude images at their New 
York gallery and on their website.

Eric has been interviewed by SanFranciscoArtMagazine.com, reviewed on 
international websites, and can be seen at nakedlens.com, 
thecontemporaries.org, artnudes.blogspot.com, and ahop2.com. A limited 
edition of handmade books featuring the “repose” nudes is available by 
request on Eric’s website at http://www.eapfoto.com.

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Contacts
Jeffrey Babcock, Cultural Strategies, 1-623-535-4813, 
jeffreybabcock at culturalstrategies.com
Eric Alan Pritchard, +1-415-948-7263, eric at eapfoto.com

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