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BEAT!
The Ordered World

Christopher Felver

Based in San Francisco, CA, Chris Felver is a photographer and filmmaker who has had solo photographic exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Torino Fotografia Biennale Internazionale; and Fahey / Klein Gallery in Los Angeles.  He participated in the 53rd Venice International Film Festival.  Retrospectives of his films have been held by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2000), The New York Public Library (2003), and the Museum of Fine Art in Boston (2004).  His films are John Cage Talks About Cows, Cecil Taylor:  All the Notes, West Coast:  “Beat & Beyond”, Taken by the Romans, Donald Judd’s Marfa Texas, Tony Cragg:  In Celebration of Sculpture, California Clay in the Rockies, and The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.  Mr. Felver’s books are:  The Late Great Allen Ginsberg, Seven Days in Nicaragua Libre, The Poet Exposed, Ferlinghetti Portrait, Angels, Anarchists & Gods, and The Importance of Being.  His work is collected in libraries and museums worldwide.

The May 2007 show of Mr. Felver's work at the Grand Hand Gallery is comprised of images from his new book BEAT.  A collection of images, text, ephemera, artifacts and reminiscence, BEAT celebrates the creative spirit and joyous antics of the writers, artists and musicians of the Beat Generation.  The personalities that defined this loose-knit community are all present in the book, which includes contributions by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, David Amram, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs and others.
 A 2006 show of Mr. Felver's work at The Grand Hand featured images from a series titled "The Ordered World".  These are black and white photographs of unexpected patterns, forms and textures found urban and rural settings. Felver arranges the images in large scale “grids” (40” x 36”) that form patterns of their own.  Both the BEAT and “The Ordered World” images may be ordered in a variety of sizes.

All of Felver’s images are shot using film and printed on photographic paper – there is nothing digital about his work.  We think that’s pretty great…. Felver will sign prints for customers upon request.