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Chris Burkard's photographs are about more than barrels, perfect point breaks, and carving radical lines – they capture a moment in which the surfer is a mere player and the real star is the scenery. Words: Dan Hamlin Photos: Chris Burkard

Quietly considered and eloquent, you might know of Nathan Oldfield through his films 'Lines From A Poem' and 'Seaworthy'. Surf Screen's Christiaan Bailey popped him a few duly thoughtful questions about creative motivations and the surf film industry. Photos: Nathan Oldfield

Cyrus Sutton made an impression on the international film circuit with his 2003 breakthrough movie 'Riding Waves'. Now the EMMY award-winning documentary maker has turned his attention to the divergent surf scenes of Australia's Gold Coast and Byron Bay. Words: Tommy Leitch Photos: Courtesy of Cyrus Sutton

Jimmy Newitt pays homage to one of South Devon's treasures - not a break but a surfer who stands tall in the crowd. Words: Jimmy Newitt Photos: Ollie Howe

Two of the most influential people on the surf-inspired art scene, Jeff Raglus and Gerry Wedd have been making their mark on everything from surfboards to teapots since the 1970s. Thirty years later, they're still as productive as ever... Words: Tommy Leitch Photos: Jamie Bott

Scott Patt | Still Here

December 12, 2012 | Words By:

From the hubbub of Hale-Bopp, the blip of Y2K, the hullabaloo of the Hadron Collider and the termination of the Mayan Calendar, the human race has been summoning our end ever since we began.


STILL HERE is an exhibition of works by Artist Scott Patt that explores the personal symbology of luck, the sanctuary of youth, and the hope and humor of daily life amongst the din of foretold ruin. Patt utilizes iconic symbols, objects and concepts that have a rooted power, meaning and often nostalgia within modern popular culture from advertising to cartoons and cultural icons. These recognizable forms and ideas are transposed, tweaked and twisted to expose new meanings, modes and issues from the intimate to the global, to the ironic and optimistic. STILL HERE exposes Patt’s philosophical conflicts and shelters within memory, superstition, faith and luck to prep and protect from life’s impending end…
or viewed another way, preparing to live in case we find we’re still here.

Artist’s reception this Thursday, December 13th, 6-8pm

Winston Wächter Fine Art
530 W25th Street, NY
December 6th – January 19th

   

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