DAVE ANDERSON
Rough Beauty
November 8 - December 22, 2006
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In conjunction with the release of Rough Beauty, a first publication presenting the work of photographer Dave Anderson, Stephen Wirtz Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of the same title. Rough Beauty assesses the town of Vidor, Texas, a place historically recognized as a Klu Klux Klan town. While shifting away from the most obvious vein, Anderson uncovers a muted beauty: rough in appeal and rich with a certain overshadowing melancholy.

Anderson’s visual narrative depicting those left over, struggling economically and socially amongst the history of Vidor current day, engages a contemporary glance into Vidor as an American town set apart from the path of most outside visitors. In Anderson’s monochromatic photographs lies an artifact of understated instances that exist wholly within the daily for the residents of Vidor, and act as telltale sign of a culture worn and disbanded, deserted and branded by history.