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La Petite Mort Gallery presents:

TONY FOUHSE: "LIVE THROUGH THIS"

&

LYLE RICHARDSON: "Drawings of Everyday Life"

February 24-25, 2012

Vernissage Friday Feb 24 / 7 - 10pm

La Petite Mort Gallery loves the unusual, the unpredictable, and at times, the illogical, and in this case, we have invited two artists who are old friends. Both artists, in very separate fields, they both document everyday life, but with different visons.

Join us & meet both the artists !!

Lyle Richardson Statement:

"A lot of the paintings take on a dream significance. The strip joints, etc., shouldn’t be taken too seriously. If I retain a spirit of fun when I paint perhaps it’s all worthwhile. Perhaps I just paint the weather".

Tony Fouhse Statement:

"It’s true that Lyle and I have known each other for years (we met in

Mr. Valcour’s history class, Hillcrest H.S., 1970) and we both feel

compelled to create stuff (in my case, photos of people I meet, in

Lyle’s bright, dark watercolors of alienation). But other than that

I’m not too sure what we might have in common.

But I have a feeling that my photos just might be the ground to

Lyle’s sky, the Heaven to his Hell, the calm to his storm.

I’ve known Lyle since high school. We’d skip class, hang in the basement listening to Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf. Lyle would play the blues on the piano and paint pictures. He still plays the blues, and paints them, too. His little water colors are stunning jewels, sometimes clear like diamonds, other times dark and deep as a blood red ruby. He says he paints the weather, and I take that to mean the weather in his head. Pure poetry…..the sunny days and the storms that sulk and rage inside each and every one".

LIVE THROUGH THIS - statement

In the summer of 2010 photographer Tony Fouhse met Stephanie, a heroin addict. He asked her if there was something he could do to help her. She asked for help getting into a rehab program. He said he would and they agreed to document the process.

So began a journey that lasted 9 months, that began in despair and travelled through horror towards hope, that took twists and turns unimaginable to either of them when they began.

The result is LIVE THROUGH THIS, a harrowing series of images,

notes and text that documents that trip.

In the process of finding a publisher, the components that comprise LIVE THROUGH THIS have only ever been seen in chaotic bits and pieces on the web. As well, parts of the project have been featured in the British Journal of Photography and American Photography 27.

Gallery La Petite Mort takes great pleasure in exhibiting, for 2 days

only, a small selection of images from LIVE THROUGH THIS.

Gallery invite:

http://www.lapetitemortgallery.com/february-24-2012/Thank you,

Guy Berube, director

La Petite Mort Gallery