All photos © Todd Hido

Todd Hido’s photographs are made during long, solitary drives. The main subject of his work is the American urban and suburban landscape, often photographed at night. Celebrated for his use of textural detail and colour, Hido explores subtleties and variations in light and shadow found in these quietly unsettling scenes. Isolated suburban houses have gone on to become an ongoing source of inspiration and investigation for the artist. His work has a cinematic quality, reproducing the aesthetic of the film still. The artist brings these expressive, eery qualities to his photographs of unpopulated interiors which explore similar themes to his landscape work.

Todd Hido was born in Kent, Ohio in 1968. He received his B.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University, and M.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts. Hido has been the recipient of the Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Visual Arts Award, and the Barclay Simpson Award. His photographs have been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, Elephant and FOAM. His work is held in the permanent collections of many noted public and private collections including the Getty, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Portrait by Jeff Singer

For over 25 years, Hido has crafted narratives through loose and mysterious suburban scenes, desolate landscapes, and cinematic portraits. Irrespective of its title, this is a book about hope and beauty and why we seek it so desperately at this time. For his latest images he has roamed as far as the Hawaiian Islands and their meteorological opposites; the shores of the Bering Sea, and Nordic fjords above the Arctic Circle. Even with such geographic diversity, Hido captures places that feel at once familiar and unknown; welcoming and unsettling. With this stunning new monograph, Hido picks up where his previous title Bright Black World left off, presenting some 80 new and previously unpublished landscape photographs.

The End Sends Advance Warning by Todd Hido
Published by Nazraeli Press, 2023
Hardcover, 104 pages, 80 four-color plates, 9 tipped-in cards, laid-in vellum brochure.
ISBN 978-15-90055-95-3

All photos © Meg Roussos

Meg Roussos’ photo-based art practice investigates what it means to physically experience the landscape. Cultivated from 10 years spent exploring the wilderness – she has hiked over 8,000 miles and completed three major U.S. long distance hiking trails – her work queries the landscape and her place within it. Roussos uses photography in the traditional sense to yield a picture, and also as a means to document her site-responsive installations and performances. Her work readily blurs documentation with fantasy and allows for a playful humor amidst the exigencies wrought by climate change. While excavating the contradictions in our mediated experience of nature, Roussos maintains a deeply romantic belief in our spiritual connection with the natural environment and the possibility for beauty and hope to prevail.

Meg Roussos (b.1990) was raised in Southern Ohio and has lived in Seattle, WA since 2020. She was introduced to photography when she assembled a homemade darkroom with her dad during her high school years and went on to earn a B.S. in Photojournalism from Ohio University and an MFA in Studio Art from East Tennessee State University. She was recently an artist-in-residence at MJR Projects in Bainbridge Island, WA (2021), Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO, (2021) and will take part in The Arctic Circle Residency expedition in 2024. Roussos’ first San Francisco solo show Tread happened at Chung24 Gallery in early fall 2023.

Make it an afternoon and explore what Ft Mason Center for the Arts has to offer! Our thanks to Bayfront Theater administered by BATS Improv for hosting us in their space.

Drinking and Dining at Fort Mason Center: 
The Interval (bar w/ snacks)
Greens (upscale vegetarian)
RadHaus (German beer and food)
Off the Grid (food truck festival)

Nearby:
Delarosa (roman-style pizzeria)
Patxi’s Chicago Pizza (pizza)
Plant (organic vegetarian)
Tacolicious (untraditional taqueria)
The Tipsy Pig (gastropub)

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