January 25 - February 17, 2007

Opening Reception - Saturday January 27, 6-8pm

In his dreamlike scenarios, Delatolas visits the empty isolation of America's postindustrial landscape - a gas station in Brookings, Oregon; a drive-in movie theater; a dirt road in Vieques, Puerto Rico - hoping for a glimpse of hope in what is both a romantic darkness and a metaphor for losing one's way. By taking his photographs in darkened light, Delatolas constructs an allegory of the vision with which we see the world; our view of things remains at least partially dependent on the mood we carry within us.

Iannis Delatolas was born in Germany in 1971 and raised in Greece, first on the island of Tinos and then in Athens. At age eighteen, he came to the U.S. and lived in Denver for a year before moving permanently to New York City. He collaborated with the theater director Robert Wilson on Prometheus, an opera based on the music of Iannis Xenakis that was staged in Athens; studied photography, printing and aesthetics with Marcus Leatherdale and David Armstrong; and worked in professional photography labs making prints for major photographers. His work has been shown at Kouros Gallery (NYC), Boston University, Columbia University's Italian Academy, The Living Room Gallery (NYC), and the Salvatore Ferragamo showroom on Fifth Avenue. His photographs appear in a book by Rick Whitaker, The First Time I Met Frank O'Hara: Reading Gay American Writers that was published in October 2003.

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