{"id":6112,"date":"2026-10-30T11:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spectrumphotogallery.org\/home\/?p=6112"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:54:39","slug":"tridentity-wendy-denton-ed-gillum-kris-kessey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spectrumphotogallery.org\/home\/2026\/10\/30\/tridentity-wendy-denton-ed-gillum-kris-kessey\/","title":{"rendered":"Tridentity Wendy Denton, Ed Gillum, Kris Kessey"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Spectrum Art Gallery presents<\/h2>

Tridentity | Wendy Denton, ed Gillum, Kris Kessey<\/h3>

November 5 – November 29, 2026<\/h4>

ArtHop Reception: November 5th, 5-8PM<\/h4>

Friday Photography Live – November 27th, 7PM<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Aging is a lot like tending a garden.<\/span><\/p>

You don\u2019t expect a garden to look the same every season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In spring, there\u2019s new growth and energy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

  • In summer, things flourish.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>
  • In autumn, leaves change, some things fade, and the garden becomes quieter.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>
  • Winter can look bare, but underneath the soil, life is happening.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>

    Aging works similarly.\u00a0It isn\u2019t simply a process of losing things; it\u2019s a process of changing what you cultivate.<\/span>\u00a0<\/b>Some abilities may decline, while other things\u2014wisdom, perspective, patience, relationships, self-knowledge\u2014can deepen.<\/span><\/p>

    The beautiful part is that\u00a0a garden doesn\u2019t have to be young to be beautiful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

    An old tree can provide the most shade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

    Mature gardens often have the deepest roots. <\/span><\/p>

    Wendy Denton<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    TRIDENTITY words 2026<\/span><\/p>

    Two years ago, November 2024. the three of us – Kris Kessey, Wendy Denton and myself held an exhibition in the SPECTRUM Art Gallery.\u00a0 That exhibit was titled TRIPLEX.\u00a0 Showing together was such a great experience that we signed up to do another show together.\u00a0 During the. month of November 2026 the three of us will again be showing together at the SPECTRUM Art Gallery. This time the title of the exhibit is TRIDENTITY.\u00a0 Various aspects of the human experience are explored.\u00a0 Wendy\u2019s work for this show is focused on AGING. Kris has chosen VESTIGES as her theme.\u00a0 My part of the exhibit is subtitled STAGES.<\/span><\/p>

    I chose to present pieces of my artwork that depict and delineate significant moments in my creative life.\u00a0 Merriam Webster defines STAGE as a point in a process, a raised platform for performances, or as verb meaning to organize an event. My intention is to avoid the familiar linear progression of most retrospectives that take the viewer through the artist\u2019s life and how one piece led to the next.\u00a0 My work has been more concerned with ideas first and foremost.\u00a0 The style and content changes from piece to piece and can seem chaotic, but always creative. As a sculptor who taught sculpture at the university level, my work has been influenced by the interchange of ideas that come from working with creative students.\u00a0 Much of my work has been in the form of sculpture and installation.\u00a0 For this show, I have chosen works of my art that have photography as a significant part of the work and share the STAGES of my development.\u00a0 The earliest piece in the show is the result of having taken an advanced photography class the same semester as my first sculpture class at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California. In the sculpture class we were introduced to sculpting in clay and mold making that would allow casting of the forms that we created in various materials.\u00a0 I was drawn to clear resin and chose to use my face making a self-portrait. \u00a0 Simultaneously, in the photo class we were introduced to Kodalith graphic arts film that offered extremely high contrast and a durable substrate.\u00a0 My mind went directly to what if a photo of my face was developed at extremely high contrast that only went black where there were shadows, leaving the rest of the sheet of plastic transparent.\u00a0 I then set about casting the three-dimensional version of my face with the sheet of Kodalith providing the shadows that further defined the form.\u00a0 This piece opened my mind to different ways of doing things and paved the way to seeking an ongoing path of creative experimentation.<\/span><\/p>

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    Vestiges<\/span> 2026<\/span><\/p>

    During our discussions of which topics we each wanted to explore for a unified exhibit Wendy chose \u2018Ageing\u2019,and Ed was looking at \u2018Stages\u2019.\u00a0 I was drawn to the final conclusion of what comes next in our lives and once dead what we leave behind.<\/span><\/p>

    Beyond the physical remains of flesh and bones what are the things which somehow hold who we are or were while alive?\u00a0 Are they photographs or artwork we\u2019ve made?\u00a0 Clothes we wore, a stone, seashell or piece of driftwood we brought home from an adventure\u00a0 or outing to place on a windowsill as a gentle reminder of a moment?\u00a0 Perhaps a toy from childhood or a treasured heirloom from a previous generation .\u00a0 There are many things which hold our essence I think.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

    Unless we\u2019ve written a memoir or diary our memories mostly die with us. Poof.\u00a0 Photographs can document some of those memories but the objects we held and cherished – do we somehow linger on in their physicality?\u00a0 Will those people that we leave behind be able to connect to or experience who we were by holding the things we found dear?\u00a0 Or is it just another object?<\/span><\/p>

    Having recently moved from one house to another I was confronted with decades of stuff I had found precious enough to keep, things stuffed into drawers or boxes out of sight.\u00a0 What is all this stuff?\u00a0 What will become of all of it. \u00a0 Will it go to thrift stores or landfills or what?\u00a0 Do I need to keep this or that?\u00a0 Many things have been\u00a0 easy to pass along\u00a0 but some things I chose to continue to keep and surround myself with. \u00a0 Some things that I inherited I wanted to pass along but in reality no one these days wants that stuff and I was not yet ready to consign them to thrift shops and trash heaps and so they continue to sit taking up space in dark cabinets and corners of closets waiting for someone to possibly (hopefully) come along and covet it.<\/span><\/p>

    Kris Kessey<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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