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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=75 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="home1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" StudioSoto Home Page"><U><B><IMG SRC="ceb2c340.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="52" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Info"><U>Info</U></A>   |   <A HREF="shows.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shows"><U>Shows</U></A>   |   <A HREF="home18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Artists"><U>Artists</U></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="home5ba.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="lunenburg"><U>lunenburg</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home5c6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="anderson"><U>anderson</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home5c5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="burns"><U>burns</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home5c4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="daniels"><U>daniels</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home5c3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="granick"><U>granick</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="home5c2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="hayward"><U>hayward</U></A></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7008c80808000.png" HEIGHT="9" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">soto-rosa</B></div> <div> <A HREF="home5c0.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="welke"><U>welke</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=405 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B>Lunenburg</B></div> <div> <I><B>Revisited</B></I></div> <div> January 13, 2006 - February 5, 2006</div> <bR> <div> Born in Caracas, Venezuela, <B>Gustavo Soto-Rosa</B> studied architecture at Universidad Simon Bolivar. In 1984 he moved to the San Francisco Bay area where he obtained a Master's of Engineering from UC Berkeley.  After moving to Boston in 1987, Soto-Rosa studied photography at the Massachusetts College of Art under both Joan Albers and Ron Morris. He also studied architectural photography at the Boston Architectural Center under Steve Edson. Mr. Soto-Rosa has exhibited locally at the Contemporary Art Center in North Adams, the Lillian Immig Gallery at Emmanuel College, the Artist Foundation's Main Gallery in Boston, the Boston Center for the Arts, Zona, The Perrin Gallery, Zeitgeist and Mass Art.  His work was shown as part of Boston's 2003 and 2005 Cyberarts Festival. He is also co-founder and current director of STUDIO Soto.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> I fantasize what it would be like to contemplate the valleys of my memory.  The imprecise contours of his smile, the shadows inside his pupils, the crashing black waves of his hair. I travel down impossible geographies feeling lost while I search for him, always elusive.</div> <bR> <div> Landscapes of Dad, 2005</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> The images from “Landscapes of Dad” are all based on portraits of my father taken from snapshots, passport pictures, and other memorabilia including my parent's wedding pictures. Slivers of the images are extruded to distort the original reference and made to look as imaginary landscapes. While the pieces are abstract they are charged with emotional content from my memory of him.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>