Photographs by Dana Forsberg, san shoppell and Marc Yoakum
January 24 - April 30, 2006

Dana Forsberg's photographs of her friends' and acquaintances' refrigerator doors become a type of portrait for the artist, providing insight and clues about the owner. Papers and photographs attached with magnets to the doors, as well glimpses of the spaces surrounding the refrigerators, work as storytelling devices, offering hints about the owners' lifestyle and interests.

Artist san shoppell is fascinated with capturing fleeting moments created by time and light. Her two photographic series of tented houses and road shadows serve to document common occurrences that are often passed by, unnoticed. shoppell's termite tented houses are wrapped in cheerful color, yet hide the poison gases within. Briefly existing, like the visiting circus tents that they resemble, shoppell takes them out of context and enlarges to abstractions, focusing on color, line and texture.

The pinhole camera plays an integral part in each of Marc Yoakum's photographic works. For the Contemporary Cafˇ exhibition, Yoakum creates pinhole cameras by cutting and folding photographic paper into a pyramid shape. After exposing the image, the camera is deconstructed, the image processed, and the resulting paper negative and former camera are displayed mounted and frame.