CURRENT SHOW
ROCK RIVER VALLEY PAINTERS' GUILD  PAINTINGS BY MEMBERS
May 7, 2011 through November 1, 2011        OPENING:  Saturday, May 7, 2010   6-8pm
Art@Rock River GAP
is a bi-annual exhibition
space located within Rock
River Golf and Pool.  
Owners and avid art
collectors, John and
Annette Lawrence
opened Rock River Golf
and Pool in the spring of
2010 as a public venue in
the old Rock River Country
Club.  The building is
completely renovated
offering a public golf
course, pro shop, pool,
banquet facility,  fine
dining,and art exhibition
space.
Rock River Golf & Pool
3901Dixon Ave
Rock Falls, IL 61071
815.625.2387
11AM - 9PM 7 days a week
For info on showing at
Art@Rock River GAP
email
Lisa Higby LeFevre
Hope Greene

ROCK RIVER VALLEY PAINTERS' GUILD  PAINTINGS BY MEMBERS

Art@Rock River GAP presents its second bi-annual show, “The Mirror of Earth”, photographs by Hope Greene. Opening
reception is Friday, November 4, 2011, 6 – 8 p.m. at Rock River GAP, 3901 Dixon Ave., Rock Falls, IL 61071  815.625.2387  
Free.   November 4, 2011 – May 1, 2012.  

Hope Greene’s photography is subtle, provocative and nuanced.  She first honed her black and white film photography
skills at School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois and further at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.  After graduating in 2001, she has worked as a freelance creative, living and working in the United States
and the United Kingdom. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and are contained in private collections
on three continents. Until  recently Hope lived in Dixon, Illinois, but has just relocated to Eau  Claire, Wisconsin where she
continues to develop and exhibit a growing  body of work.

THE MIRROR OF EARTH ~ HOPE GREENE

In “The Mirror of Earth” Hope is drawn to land, fascinated by the infinitely varied, yet always  familiar forms, shades, colors,
movements and rhythms of the natural world. Her  visual explorations of this subject matter stem from an impetus to find
meaning and connection in the things around her. The image of a tree against a rock, a parasitic vine, or an  
unattainable height so easily slips into symbolic description of an interior life. Her landscapes exist in that intersection
between human imagination and earth’s actual appearance.

What attracts Hope to photography is that the process is dependent on circumstance. A photographic image is the
mixture of the delicate mix of time and light and objects drifted across the paper and mingled with the sense that
something has stayed to linger from the encounter.  

Playing with representation and metaphor, the resulting photographs seem heavily authentic and read as a  credible
witness to events. The photographic image is just a crust of light darkened silver, but it somehow stands as proof of Hope’
s existence, of the existence of that land, and of the fact that at one slim moment of time she and her subject existed
together.

As she states, “Whether this link was intimate or uncomprehending, welcoming or indifferent, each place and I create a
delicate silver reflection on a piece of paper, the record of a human being staring into the earth and seeing herself.”