Exhibition Opening | Matt Keene: Echoes of the Wild
“My art is a call to preserve the wild spaces that inspire and sustain us. By blending a historical photographic process with modern conservation themes, I aim to remind viewers of the enduring beauty and fragility of our natural world. The hand poured evidence inherent in the collodion process echoes the vulnerability of our own delicate connection to these environments and the urgent need for stewardship.”
– Matt Keene
Echoes of the Wild is an immersive exhibition that brings together the historic artistry of nineteenth-century wet plate collodion photography and a contemporary call for environmental stewardship. Created during backcountry expeditions across the southeastern United States, Matt Keene’s unique images offer intimate, often haunting glimpses of landscapes and wildlife under threat from pollution, climate change, and human development.
Join us on October 3 from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., during St. Augustine’s First Friday Art Walk for the opening of Echoes of the Wild.
Live music by Raisin Cake Orchestra. Refreshments will be served. Guests should enter through the Radzinski Garden located at the rear of the Lightner Museum.
Read more about the exhibition here.
Created to showcase the extraordinary talents of artists who live in the Northeast and Central Florida regions, Lightner Local is supported by the Benjamin and Jean Troemel Arts Foundation.
