Jerry Takigawa’s photography exhibit: False Food—A Metaphor for Survival, will be hosted in the main gallery of the nonprofit Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento, California. The exhibit will run from February 10 through April 2, 2016.

Artist’s Reception for Viewpoint Members Friday, February 12, 6–8:30 pm                         2nd Saturday Artist’s Public Reception Saturday, February 13, 5–9:00 pm

Can an artistic aesthetic emerge by focusing on materials that have caused fatal harm to countless birds? What does this say about humans as a disposable society? Robert Reese, director of Carmel’s Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, wrote: “Pictorially, Takigawa’s work conveys a kind of terrible beauty by pairing Japanese symmetry and design with a devastating ecological calamity. At the same time, Takigawa’s work is informed by a commitment to those issues in ways that surprise, disclose and uncover. Salvaging such defiant beauty from plastic artifacts recovered from the albatross provides a compelling metaphor of survival in the modern world—both human and animal.”