M. Street Gallery will present Alternative Interpretations of Light, featuring photographs by artist Ron Ward from March 6 – March 27, 2009. There will be an exhibition reception on First Friday, March 6, from 6 – 9 PM.

In this one-man exhibition, Ward presents his interpretations of dreams series. This series of photographs attempt to visually capture and emulate the dreamlike state one enters in rim sleep. Ward began thinking about how wonderful it would be to bring back images from his dreams which inspired these new experiments with several forms of movement in evening light.

Over a decade ago, Ron Ward theorized his current abstractions and experimented with new techniques and processes which lead him to produce a new and visually stimulating photographic image that broke free of the confines of the darkroom. Ward composes his “fantasy of abstraction” through the use of light and reflective movement. Ward creates his photographs using 35 mm film and he sets out in the evenings carefully selecting his space and light source to begin his abstract photography. Ward does not use any computer manipulation at all to achieve these images; starting by hand-holding the camera, Ward begins to travel thorough the images, simulating the dream like state. This movement through the observed evening lighting be it street lights or the interior lights of a night club, Ward manipulates the camera around and through the open space capturing the light as it moves around him constructing sophisticated compositions of concept, subject and light.

Ron Ward spent five years with Photo Corp. of America as the Photographer and Field Operations Manager for 20 studios in Holland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. Ward also served as the Photo Journalist for a joint missionary and Rivers of the World Expedition to the Amazon Jungle in Peru, in which his photographs taken during these travels were featured in an American Express TM travel publication.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public