“Here and There” by Juergen Vespermann

Juergen Vespermann has been a long-time member of Fresno’s Spectrum Gallery and has participated in numerous one-person and group shows in Germany and California. Born and raised in Muenster, Germany, he became interested in photography during his college years and moved to Fresno in 1989. That year, he also joined the fine art photography gallery Spectrum Art Gallery.

Juergen has worked with a corporation (Westfalen Gas) in Germany documenting the oil production facilities and provided the photograph “Not a Bullet Hole” for the US East Coast heavy rock band Dead Season for the cover of their album          “down again”.

The November exhibition is titled ‘Here and There’, meaning ‘Here’, the general Fresno/California area and his current home, and ‘There’, the rest of the world, but especially Europe, his first home now being somewhat far away, somewhere out ‘There.’ The ‘Here’ is represented by backyard photographs of succulents/cacti, Fresno in the fog photographs, murals from Downtown LA and Downtown Fresno (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) mural by Bobby Von Martin), and architectural photographs from Fresno and Fresno and Tulare counties. The ‘There’ part shows architectural images from his two recent trips to Germany, the Netherlands (Rotterdam), Belgium (Liege) and Paris, and a couple older prints from London and Australia.

Hunting for interesting architectural locations takes you sometimes to areas you wouldn’t necessarily visit otherwise, exposing you to parts of a city or county not many people visit otherwise (e.g. Angiola in Tulare County) . And it’s OK, if that doesn’t turn into good photography but just a new or different traveling experience. On the lighter side of this exhibition’s photography, Juergen also shows his long-time travel companion, the Pink Panther (as a bendable toy), in many different situations and locations.

A notebook will be out at the gallery for visitors to leave notes. Juergen would love to hear people’s thoughts on his show.

Spectrum Art Gallery’s New Hours of Operation:
ArtHop (1st) Thursdays: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Fridays: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Saturdays and Sundays: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM