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White 1, 2009 Archival Pigment Print 48” x 34”

KATIE BOLLMAN WALKER                                                                                        

“Structures”
January 6 – February 28, 2011
Opening Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 6 - 9 PM

ATLANTA - The Hagedorn Foundation Gallery is proud to announce the opening of Atlanta photographer Katie Bollman Walker’s exhibition “Structures:” sixteen extraordinary architectural photographs taken in Atlanta, rural America, the Near East, and Europe.  Walker’s perfect geometries of form – using a vocabulary of triangles, squares and circles in chalky black, frosty white or neutral beige - somehow also reveal themselves to be commonplace barns, low-rise buildings and architecture under the gun for tear downs.
Walker’s Platonic ideals of buildings – constructed and deconstructed -- are composed in clean, cropped frontal shots that concentrate on the buildings’ anatomies in light and form. Their Zen like simplicity creates a quiet harmony. Made on color film, but primarily referencing black and white objects, and flattened by her lenses, their Eastern aesthetic emits a radiant light.
Also scattered among the topology of barn structures in the exhibition are several works from remote locations, including the deserts of Egypt and the beaches of Navarre. These locales of a vast nature –- whether sand or ocean -- feature a lone mysterious figure dwarfed by his/her environs, oftentimes difficult to locate in the composition, inconsequential to the big picture, but playing a necessary part in the puzzle of the whole that they occupy.
Bollman’s work can be seen as a commentary on the disposability of our culture, the frenetic movement forward leaving wreckage in its wake, and the dreams we hold onto, such as the stability and beauty of our countryside.
Katie Bollman Walker’s work is in the collections of the Georgia Museum of Art, Jamestown Properties, 999 Peachtree, White Provisions, Zonolite Road Properties I, Zonolite Road Properties II, as well as many local and national private collections.