In Search of America: bring your pix from (and get your kicks on) Route 66

Thu, Feb 21, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Silver Eye Center for Photography

1015 East Carson Street, Southside

412-431-1810

www.silvereye.org

Photo albums overflowing with images of adventures along Route 66? Portfolio bursting with photographs of roadside pop culture? A fan of Pennsylvania's historic section of the Lincoln Highway? If so, then grab your coveted prints and cherished memories and head to the Silver Eye Center for Photography for an interactive discussion of image-making inspired by America's endless highways. Everything goes, from snapshots of a larger-than-life Paul Bunyan to portraits of characters of Americana to Polaroids of neon cowboys.

During this free and informal program, participants will join with Silver Eye staff, members and artists to explore and discuss work related to the center's new exhibition, In Search of America, which features the sometimes surreal, often bizarre and thoroughly American landscapes of David Graham.

From a Stalin sculpture at a roadside burger joint to a George Washington look-alike at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Graham's lens lends a spirit of endurance to the kitschy underbelly and everyday aspirations of America and its inhabitants. With equal parts humor and tenderness, Graham's color drenched images chronicle an American experience that populates the snapshots, family portraits, home movies, and vacation pictures of everyday people.

Born 1952 in Abington, Pennsylvania, David Graham has exhibited work at the Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In Search of America: Photographs by David Graham is on view through April 12.

To register for the program, call 412-431-1810, ext. 11.