From its inception in the early 19th century, photography has been about alchemy. Not just the chemical kind that occurs in darkrooms (or today in Photoshop) but the alchemy of the imagination in which ordinary things are transformed. Roger Vail, whose retina-burning photos of neon signs go on view this month at JayJay, is a master of this sort of thing. Since 1970, the year he joined the art faculty at CSUS, Vail has trained the lens of his 8 x 10 view camera on seemingly ordinary subjects to produce images that range from poetically minimal to flat-out hallucinatory.



When will roger vails show be at the pence?
When will Roger Vails show be?