April Exhibits
March 22nd, 2014 - Bend, OR
BEND, OR — The photography of award-winning landscape/travel photographer Stuart L Gordon will be
showcased at two venues in downtown Bend during April’s First Friday Art Walk.
North Soles Footwear, 800 NW Wall Street, and Bend Premier Real Estate, 550 NW Franklin Ave., both will be
showcasing the work of the Bend-based photographer in April. Gordon will be on hand to tell the story behind
each of the stunning images he captured with his camera during a reception from 5 pm to 8 pm on First Friday,
April 4 at Bend Premier Real Estate’s office.
Between the two venues, more than 30 of his matted and framed images will be on display. Featured in the
exhibits are several images from the photographer’s collection of Central Oregon photographs as well as from his
extensive travels throughout the Western United States and British Columbia.
Gordon has participated in many exhibits and First Friday Art Walks in Central Oregon, and his work has
been featured in Landscape Photography Magazine, several Oregon curated exhibits and in a New York City
gallery in Manhattan’s prestigious Chelsea District. A dozen of Gordon’s images were selected in 2013 as part of
a roving digital gallery exhibit celebrating Oregon sponsored by Photolucida, a non-profit national organization
that promotes the art of photography.
Included in the April exhibits are two award-winning images, “First Snow” and “Sunset Light on McWay
Falls.” The first, taken on a autumn morning at Sparks Lake, Oregon, was selected as one of a dozen photographs
singled out for praise in a worldwide competition judged by celebrated nature photographer Art Wolfe in 2013.
The second image, taken along the Big Sur coast, was a winner in a 2012 worldwide photography contest sponsored
by the PhotoShelter web-hosting site.
Gordon is currently working on a book of his fine art photographs that he expects to publish as an ebook
in late 2015. All the matted and framed prints in the exhibit are made with archival inks and will be on sale
throughout April at both locations. The prints are available in a variety of sizes from the photographer’s website:
www.chasingthelight.zenfolio.com.
Gordon said he sees the camera as a tool to express his personal vision of and emotional response to the
beauty of the natural world.
“The great American author Henry Miller said, ‘One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of
looking at things.’ I couldn’t agree more. Photography enables me to see things differently than I ever did before.
It’s taught me to see the extraordinary even in the ordinary.”
Gordon also produces an annual calendar of Central Oregon images, sales of which benefits the
Environmental Center of Central Oregon, and donates 10% of proceeds from exhibit sales during First Friday
Artwalk to The Bethlehem Inn, Central Oregon’s shetler for the homeless.
For more information, contact Stu Gordon at 541-306-8711.