DONALD MCKAY

PHOTOGRAPHS FROM ABYSMAL CROSSING

March 7 - April 9, 2006
Please join us for the opening reception: Tuesday, March 7 at 6:30 pm
Hors d'oeuvres by the Melville Café.

Cambridge Galleries, DESIGN AT RIVERSIDE
7 Melville Street South, Cambridge, Ontario T 519.621.0460

The Lincoln Highway was America’s first transcontinental highway, built in the early part of the 20th century to link San Francisco and New York City. Today, that highway has been replaced by modern interstates, but the space between the old and the new reveals a fascinating story.

Donald McKay traveled the route of the old Lincoln Highway as it was back in 1919, paralleling it along the modern Interstate 80. In doing so, he discovered what he calls a “cultural fault line” in the fabric of America. Along one line you see the America of now, and the America that Americans want to become. Along the other is the America that has been left behind. McKay’s black-and-white photographs capture evidence of the contradictions, the compromises, and the failures between these two worlds.

Donald McKay is Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. He is principal of a design and planning studio in Toronto specializing in studio works in furniture and equipment design, architectural and urban design. Beginning in 1993, under the working title First Transcontinental: Nine Journeys in America, he began research on American culture and public life. His research, photography and writing will be contained in the forthcoming first volume of his book, Abysmal Crossing.

Cambridge Galleries’ exhibitions are free and open to the public.

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Gallery Hours:
Mon Closed,
Tues-Thurs 12-8 pm,
Fri 12-5 pm
Sat 10 am - 5 pm,
Sun 1:30 - 4:30 pm

Lisa Mahoney
Audience Development Coordinator
Cambridge Galleries
1 North Square
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada N1S 2K6
Tel: 519.621.0460
Fax: 519.621.2080

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