New photo exhibit at CLC Art Gallery explores life along U.S. 20
A new photography exhibit called "20/20 Vision: Travels Along America's Accidental Highway" will be on display at the Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art at the College of Lake County from May 22 through June 26.
The photos are the work of a mother and daughter, Jan Albers and Karen Titus, who documented the road with photographs and written stories of people encountered along the way during their travels along U.S. 20, a coast to coast highway that is America's longest.
The exhibit will kick off with a reception from 7-9 p.m. on May 22 in the gallery, located on CLC's Grayslake campus, 19351 W. Washington St. Both the exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. The opening night reception will include refreshments and music by the Anderson Nordmark Acoustic Guitar Duo.
According to Albers and Titus, U.S. 20 is this country's Main Street.
"Actually, it's dozens of main streets, strung out in short bursts across 3,365 miles of asphalt, from Boston, Mass., to Newport, Ore., with plenty of light and horizons, shadows and fields filling in the blanks along the way," they write. "This road reveals a cross-section of society, architecture, history and vistas. Our photos reflect images we saw and experienced along this public road, securing on film glimpses of its breadth and uniqueness. Route 20 is a kaleidoscope of cultural and physical geography where the past and present merge to provide a visual encyclopedia of America."
Jan Albers, the mother of the duo, is a freelance photographer who studied photography at Rocky Mountain School of Photography, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been exhibited in several solo and group events and is in many private collections. Currently living in Georgetown, Ky., she recently concluded a series of black-and-white infrared photos of Kentucky landscapes.
Karen Titus is a Chicago freelance writer and photographer whose work has appeared in magazines and exhibits. In 2011, their U.S. Route 20 photos were exhibited at the Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany, Ind. For more information on the project, visit http://accidentalhighway.com/.
For more information, call the Communication Arts, Humanities and Fine Arts division at (847) 543-2040 or visit http://gallery.clcillinois.edu/. Gallery hours for this exhibit are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Thursday (exception: May 19 to June 4, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.); Friday; 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (but closed Fridays in June).