Award Winning '10 Texas Tornados' Exhibit Will Be On Display Next Week

SAN ANGELO – Angelo State University will present a free public exhibit by Tyler-based photographer Robert Langham, winner of the 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, starting Tuesday, Jan. 17, in the Carr Education-Fine Arts (EFA) Building, 2602 Dena Drive.

Titled "10 Texas Tornados," the exhibit of Langham's still-life environmental and landscape photography will be on display in the Carr EFA Building's Gallery 193 and will be open for free public viewing on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through March 10.

Langham will also present a gallery talk about his exhibit on Friday, March 10, at 3:30 p.m. in Room 101 of the Carr EFA Building. This event will also be free and open to the public.

Langham's work is deeply rooted in a sense of place, reaching deep into the Texan psyche to explore the whimsy and endless possibilities that the open expanses of the Southwestern landscape have inspired, and continue to inspire, within his imagination.

"I'm a very native regionalist," Langham said. "I work out of my home and yard on Lindsey Lane in Tyler, Texas. I trust that everything I need is within arm's reach here in the upper Blackford Creek Watershed. My work flow is as follows: An idea arrives in my imagination. I think of ways to get it on a piece of film. I keep failing until it arrives."

A native of Tyler, Langham earned his photography degree at Sam Houston State University, has been a professional photographer since 1971, and has been an adjunct professor of photography at Tyler Junior College since 2009. Though he teaches digital photography and the use of Photoshop, his personal artwork is done on film, using large-format cameras and a traditional wet darkroom. He honed his skills at interpreting landscape imagery while an assistant at the Ansel Adams Studios in Yosemite Village, California. His photos are displayed in several museums, including the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and The Museum of Southeast Texas, and he was nominated for Art League Houston's 2022 Artist of the Year Award.

More details and samples of Langham's work are available on his blog at robertlangham.blogspot.com.