A selection of 16 prints from PAG member Rich Bergeman’s “Paleo Lakes Project” are on view in Gallery II at the Umpqua Valley Arts Center through March 13, with an opening reception planned for Friday Jan. 9 from 4-7pm.
The black-and-white infrared photographs depict the “footprints” left behind from the the late Pleistocene period—over 10,000 years ago—when Eastern and Central Oregon was covered by vast inland seas. As those seas dried up over the millennia, they left behind the numerous dust-blown playas and shallow salty seas that we can see sprinkled across the High Desert today. The photographs in the exhibit were all made in Central Oregon’s appropriately named Lake County, including such familiar sites as Lake Alvord, Summer Lake and Christmas Lake, as well as the more obscure Shirk, Alkalai, and Guano Lakes.
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