Announcement: CCPS Gallery Presents Michael Marston's - Iceland: Recent Landscapes, - starting April 1

ICELAND: RECENT LANDSCAPES

Pratt Institute CCPS Gallery
144 West 14th Street, Manhattan
April 1 - May 31. 2009
Closing reception: Friday, May 31, 6-8 PM

This series of photos by Michael Marston, associate professor,
Photography, Associate Degree Programs, reveal the geological, cultural,
and mythic aspects of Iceland's landscape.

"There is an improbable quality to the Icelandic landscape, a harsh and
isolated realm, beyond conventional standards of beauty," Marston notes.
"As it straddles the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Iceland is quite literally being
torn in half at the rate of an inch per year with lava rising to fill the
gap," Marston says. "The visual drama of this landscape emerges from this
tension between beauty and violence."

His images capture the country's magnificent mountain ranges and
waterfalls, glaciers layered with volcanic ash, fluorescent green mosses,
and strange rock formations that give the landscape an otherworldly
quality.

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