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Mike Cable

Altered States of Reality: an Exhibition of Analog and Digital Photography
November 2 - November 23, 2011 Reception: Thursday November 3, 2011 6-8 PM

Press Release

Mike Cable’s limited edition photographic prints offer a new way of looking at the marvelous details we encounter in daily life. Restlessly seeking the unusual in the usual, Cable’s carefully composed shots feature common objects reframed and revisited. Plunging into each object with a freshly born vigor, Cable is concerned with the photograph as a residue of a unique experiential encounter. Abstract marks and scrawls, patterns, systems and maps emerge from familiar artificial and organic matter. Rust, plant life, paint and architectonic abstractions in dynamic hues reveal their own unique symbology and magnify the subtle play of light and shadow illuminating quotidian opticality to the fullest.

Born in 1965 in Plattsburgh, NY, Mike Cable currently lives and works on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  His interest in abstraction harkens back to the formative period he spent growing up in the vast wilderness of the Adirondacks. He has received considerable attention for his land and seascape work as well.


Artist Statement

My abstract work is all about finding the unusual in the usual. In other words I believe that 'Chance' is the real artist in life: finding it is the hard part. It involves looking at everything up close and with an eagle eye. I don't believe you can train yourself to see these types of things; I feel it is something you are born with. This is why most people pass by the things I photograph and are unaware of the next work of art hiding in plain view - because the way I see things is unique to myself. I would like my abstracts to cause people to see something different every time they look at them, and to encourage them to ask questions. This is the great power of the medium.

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