5D Photographer Michael Dee to showcase his work at Nan Rae Gallery
Woodbury University Professor and 5D Spectrum in-house Photographer Michael Dee will be showcasing his work at Woodbury University’s Nan Rae Gallery.
Opening: March 7, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday 12-5pm March 8th – 28th, 2025
Location: Woodbury University’s Nan Rae Gallery: 7500 N Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank
Peaches & Cream, a solo exhibition featuring 16 large-scale digital photographs and 3 cast metal sculptures, will open on March 7, 6-9pm, at the Nan Rae Gallery. This exhibition expands on Dee’s complex visual vernacular that includes an aesthetic derived from an inherent curiosity and a process-based approach to art making; Dee is equal part technical wizard and art impresario, his images originally derived from the picturesque natural world, yet reconstituted in the camera to reflect a deep and abiding commitment to the ever-shifting natural landscape seemingly under siege by the imminent danger of climate change and global warming.
Dee’s process is both investigative and strangely mythic — his approach more like a visual anthropologist than a straight-up photographer. The work also demonstrates a distinctly 19th century sensibility while also embracing a neo-conceptual aesthetic; one might even go so far as to describe Dee as a combination of Auguste Renoir and Andy Warhol. The attention to detail in the work is startlingly alive as each of the 16 large-scale photographs of hummingbirds appears hyper-realistic and very nearly alien. These are not literal documents of the natural world so much as they are a living tableau of a disappearing world. Dee creates a strangely idyllic space within the gallery where healing and reflection can occur amid the turbulence and painful realities of daily living. His sculptures of the snow-owl and penguin stand as immovable witnesses to both the passage of time and our own transitory nature as the world around us vanishes daily.
