UPCOMING
Locomotion of Light & Time
Moira McDonald
March 4 - April 25, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday . March 7, 2026
2 - 5pm
OPENING RECEPTION Saturday . March 7, 2026 2 - 5pm
ARTIST STATEMENT
Time lets the light in to mark its own shape on the silver coated papers that I placed into the landscape.
These cameraless photographs are extended & direct exposures of days to months within the elements.
Uniquely marked by timed experiences together, each composition is made by inviting and then capturing the locomotion of their own slow moving image. These are photographs of long deep breaths, of atmospheric shifts, of tropospheric drifts. Pictures of foggy summer mornings, autumnal afternoons, the cold short days of winter & everything in between; though no details would hold beyond the light that had been seen.
THE ARTIST
Moira McDonald is an Australian-American photographic artist working, living & making in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography from California College of the Arts & her Master of Fine Art at San Jose State University. Utilizing a diverse & expanding dialect of analog photographic processes, Moira's pictures are unique marks of direct dialogs between the landscape and the photographic medium. Moira's photographs have been widely exhibited throughout the United States and abroad
ARTIST TALK
Saturday, April 4, 2026 3 - 4 pm
THE MODERATOR
Allison Railo has been curating exhibitions for New Museum Los Gatos since 2019. She earned an MA in Art History and Visual Culture from San Jose State University, specializing in contemporary alternative process photography. Her Master’s thesis grew into the 2020 NUMU exhibition Image + Object, featuring Moira McDonald and other prominent Bay Area photographers.
Allison earned her first MA in Museum and Gallery Management from City University in London, and her BA in World Arts and Cultures from UCLA. Allison’s love of photography began in a Bay Area high school photography class, where she learned the rules of straight photography and darkroom processing, going on to work in the photography department darkroom at The Fowler Museum at UCLA while working towards her degree. "Combining my love of Art History and Photography with the practice of museum work is the realization of a lifelong dream."