Reed Gallery exhibits work of Blaine artist

    PRESQUE ISLE – Artist Linda Griffith’s digital photography will take center stage at the Reed Fine Art Gallery when her exhibit “Home, Not Home” is featured during April and May. The artist will host an opening reception at the gallery at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 11, to discuss her work.      Griffith’s exhibit, which will be on display from April 7 to May 9, is at first glance an early exploration into the new world of digital photography and the manipulation that can be done to an image, with the artist’s personal intent of pushing the new medium into the face of established appreciators of the silver gelatin print, according to Reed Gallery Director Sandra Huck.
    “The viewer can see the manipulation, the saturation of color and solarization,” Huck said. “The manipulation has imbued them with a sinister quality.”
    Upon a second glance, that sinister quality is at the heart of a deeper expression in Griffith’s work – the premonition of loss. Griffith lost her mother and grandmother within months of one another while she was exploring doors and entrances and digital photography.
    Griffith is a fine art photographer, playwright and owner of Magic Pond Wildlife Sanctuary and Guest House in Blaine, which hosts long-term residencies for artists in a wilderness environment.
    The public is invited to explore the duality of Griffith’s exhibition and attend her reception. Light refreshments will be served. Gallery hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The gallery is closed Sundays and university holidays.