{"id":101490,"date":"2014-09-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/photographer-benny-chan-exhibits-at-christopher-w\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T17:11:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:11:23","slug":"photographer-benny-chan-exhibits-at-christopher-w","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/photographer-benny-chan-exhibits-at-christopher-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Benny Chan Exhibits at Christopher W. Mount Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve likely seen&mdash;and been wowed by&mdash;the work of photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotoworks.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benny Chan<\/a> when perusing the pages of <em>Interior Design<\/em> magazine<em>.<\/em> Originally trained as an architect at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Chan worked at firms such as Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill and Neil M. Denari Architects before transitioning into the world of photography. Twenty years later, he is now the focus of a solo exhibition Called &#8220;(Extra-ordinary) Los Angeles: Photographs by Benny Chan,&#8221; opening at <a href=\"http:\/\/christopherwmount.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher W. Mount&#8217;s namesake gallery<\/a> in Los Angeles on September 17.<\/p>\n<p>Mount first found Chan when he was the director of the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Chan&#8217;s landscapes and sweeping cityscapes struck Mount as more than simple architectural records&mdash;these images bridged into art. In the solo show, instead of focusing on the polished architectural compositions that typify Chan&rsquo;s style, this &ldquo;art project&rdquo; records the grittier, mundane, and &#8220;other&#8221; side of Los Angeles. A dystopic and industrial world is created within 28 images. The large and ominous photographs&mdash;15 years in the making&mdash;overtake the walls of the gallery. Eerily empty laundromats, airports, and sprawling highways show a more authentic city, leaving behind the glittering Hollywood trope outside the gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Chan points out that the images speak beyond the confines of Los Angeles or even Southern California. &ldquo;The scale is a microcosm of other crises threatening our very existence&mdash;climate change, food and resource shortages&mdash;that have grown incomprehensible in size to the average person with few solutions,&rdquo; Chan says. By turning our attention to our less-than-perfect reality, Chan hopes that the show will have a deeper impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When looking through the photography credits of <em>Interior Design<\/em>, it&rsquo;s not uncommon to see the name of Benny Chan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3697,"featured_media":70240,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_image_focal_point":[],"legacy_django_id":8549},"tags":[],"id_tax_domain":[],"id_tax_product":[],"id_tax_program":[],"id_issue":[],"id_cat_news":[],"internal_flag":[4220],"class_list":["post-101490","id_news","type-id_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Photographer Benny Chan Exhibits at Christopher W. 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