Gus Foster’s large-scale panoramic mountain photographs lead spectators on a pilgrimage to the rarified air at the top of the world. Gus Foster: Panoramic Photographs of Northern New Mexico includes works beginning from the artist’s first years in Taos in the 1970s working with antique panoramic Cirkut cameras using black and white film, and moves through the 1980s-2000s when he began using cameras with new technology, color film, a unique enlarger for the large negatives, and a custom color darkroom of his own design and fabrication for 16-foot long photographic prints. The exhibition concludes with Foster’s recent digital camera work, no longer panoramic in format, but still exploring themes of time and space. These photographs are meaningfully exhibited in Taos, the original place that inspired an epic journey, which has spanned alpine mountain summits, subzero temperatures, thousands of miles, and 45 years of photographic work.
Gus Foster is a recipient of the 2021 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts
This exhibition is made possible in part by support from Jim and Lina Beckley, Larry Bell Studio, Ms. Bornstein, Dora and Carl Dillistone, Sheree Livney and Steve Hanks, New Mexico Arts, and Linda and Bob Warning.
