the visual collective
December 7, 2024
“Duality,” 2024. Photos captured independently from Nick Berard on the left, and Jonathan Maurel on the right.
the first show
NICK BERARD
Nick Berard is a commercial and lifestyle photographer based in Austin, Texas. With 35 years of travel and experience in various campaigns, the captures moments of everyday life through an ongoing project called Presence.” The project depicts the essence of human presence, both with and without the presence of people.
JONATHAN MAUREL
Jonathan Maurel is a French painter and photographer based in Austin, Texas, with a passion for travel, people, and nature. Jonathan’s joy of photography resides in the ability to capture the fraction of a second where memories exist. From the golden light of a sunrise in Spain, to the delicate vibrancy of colors that lies in the exoskeleton of the smallest creatures, to the expression of happiness of two loved ones reunited, there is no glimpse of life he doesn’t like to capture.
In his current body of work, a high-definition look at plants, was sparked from the desire to show the everyday beauty of plants and the way of finding beauty and amazement in the mundane. It evolved to a larger representation of the complicated relation humans have with nature and the planet; a place of beauty that often ends up being vandalized by society.
Kate walker
Kate Walker is a versatile designer and animator with a lifelong passion for photography. Her background in fine art ranges from painting to sculpting to digital, but through limitless exploration later in her career, she landed in photography. She is dedicated to bridging the gap between photography and the fine art world, championing its recognition as an expressive medium.
Her past work has centered on mental illness and identity, but this first show focuses on the collective. A mixed media collage that was created by her late great aunt, Lou Bakalian, has been revised and edited. Memories of the late artist remain in the artifacts and negatives worked into the canvas; the found objects all relate to the photographic process. It is truly a collaborative and collective artwork.