Chris McCaw: Double Day
at SF Camerawork
Current exhibition
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SF Camerawork × Haines Gallery are pleased to present Chris McCaw: Double Day, a new solo exhibition by the celebrated Bay Area photographer. The first of two collaborative exhibitions presented in SF Camerawork’s gallery at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, the show centers on an ambitious, large-scale work that exemplifies the artist’s singular approach to image-making.
SF Camerawork has played an important role early in McCaw's career, providing support and visibility at pivotal moments. “Working at SF Camerawork from 1994 to 2008 — and engaging closely with the photographers who exhibited there — profoundly shaped my development as an artist,” the artist reflects reflects. This exhibition honors that history while underscoring the organization’s lasting impact on photographers working in and around San Francisco for over fifty years.
Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 6, 5 PM to 7 PM
SF Camerawork
2 Marina Boulevard, Building A,
San Francisco, CA 94123Artist-led public program to be announced soon. -
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Chris McCaw
Sunburned GSP #860 (Double midnight, Galbraith Lake, Arctic Circle, Alaska), 201525 Unique gelatin silver paper negatives
45.25 x 320 inches, framed
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McCaw's inventive process transforms photography’s essential components — light, time, and photosensitive materials — into physical records of duration and exposure, highlighting our place with a cosmos in motion. In his iconic Sunburn series, the lenses of his hand-built cameras function as magnifying glasses, allowing the sun to literally burn its path directly into light-sensitive paper.At the heart of Chris McCaw: Double Day is Sunburned GSP #860 (Double midnight, Galbraith Lake, Arctic Circle, Alaska), 2015, the largest continuous Sunburn McCaw has realized to date. Created during the Arctic summer, this monumental 25-panel work traces the sun’s trajectory across the sky over the course of approximately thirty hours, capturing twice the phenomenon of the “midnight sun” near the Arctic Circle. Measuring more than 25 feet in length and comprising just as many panels of silver gelatin paper, the work is a breathtaking record of landscape and weather, labor, and the passage of time. Though widely recognized as one of the artist’s most significant achievements, the work has never before been exhibited on the West Coast.Alongside Sunburned GSP #860, the exhibition will feature additional works that illuminate McCaw’s evolving investigations into the material limits and possibilities of photography itself.
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Chris McCaw
Inverse #112 (Mojave), 20242 Unique paper negatives, partial in-camera solarization21 x 45 inches, framed -
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Installation Photography: Shaun Roberts
