The opening reception for Katherine Westerhout's DETROIT
will be held on Thursday, April 3, 2008, from 6 - 9 pm. The
large format photographs are of derelict buildings and inter-
iors in Detroit and Flint, Michigan, and will be on exhibit
at 3A Gallery in San Francisco from April 3 - May 2, 2008.

As a great American city bows under the impossible weight of
time, Katherine Westerhout freezes the passing of Detroit
and invites us to look at, and to consider, the physical
manifestations of the mundane. Light and color fall across
the abandoned spaces, as it slowly deteriorates to reveal
the buildings' structure and to create new implications of
space.

As Piranesi's etchings captured the beauty of Roman Architec-
ture through its ruins, so do WesterhoutÕs photographs present
our own modern ruins. Her lens transforms these crumbling Mid-
western interiorsÑoften filled with reflective puddles of
stagnant water and carved through by beams of sunlightÑinto
picturesque landscapes of rich surfaces that are almost bar-
oque with the excessive ornamentation of decay. The ruin has
been a part of the Western visual art canon since the 17th
century, and Katherine Westerhout's large-scale images meaning-
fully continue this dialogue into our own time.

Westerhout received her B.A. in Art from San Francisco State
University. She has shown in the United States and abroad,
including Sepia International Gallery in New York City; the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery; the Oakland
Museum of California and Oakland Art Gallery; the San Jose
Museum of Contemporary Art and San Jose Textile Museum; The
Berkeley Art Center and Berkeley's Kala Art Institute; the
Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle; the Michael Hoppen
Gallery, London, England; and the Biblioteca National, Havana,
Cuba.

Special thanks to Electric Works Gallery for supplying prints.