Artwork copyright Stu Levy. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Sunset, Bandon Beach, 1988

Stu Levy
(American, born 1948)

Location: Royal Middle School, Royal City

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Stu Levy captured Sunset, Bandon Beach on the Oregon Coast. He took the image using Ansel Adam's Zone System for exposure. Using this method, he achieved a wide range of values, from dark shadows to luminous light. He notes that this image "asks the viewer to explain the juxtaposed phenomena which created a bloating black rock and shadows stretching in opposite directions."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Royal School District.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Portland, Oregon-based photographer Stu Levy creates images that explore and celebrate the natural landscape. Many of his images focus on the Columbia River Gorge region in Washington and Oregon, near his home. He notes, “The landscape, however, is only my stimulus or point of departure. I ask the question, ‘What else is the landscape,’ and it is the ‘what else’ that I try to photograph.”

Stu Levy became fascinated by photography as a child. He was a photographer for his high school and college yearbooks, and became a medical doctor. In 1979, he attended a workshop in Yosemite National Park taught by the famous photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984). Levy went on to teach at the Ansel Adams Workshops during the 1908s. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and has led photography workshops on the Oregon Coast since the 1980s.