Press Release

Venice, CA – On Thursday, February 9, The G2 Gallery will begin a weekly screening series of Ken Burns’s six-part documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The screenings provide a deeper understanding from a historical perspective of the people and places that shaped America’s national parks, the main subject of The G2 Gallery’s first two exhibits of 2012: Clyde Butcher’s Visions of America and Ansel Adams: Open to the Public. The screenings will be held every Thursday, February 9–March 15, at 2:00 pm. Admission is $5 and all proceeds will be donated to the World Wildlife Fund and the Sierra Club.

Visions of America (January 10–February 19) by photographer Clyde Butcher provides images of the America’s last wild places, preserved in our national parks from Acadia National Park in Maine, to Death Valley National Park in California.

The main highlight of Ansel Adams: Open to the Public (February 21–May 13,) The G2 Gallery’s first full-scale exhibition of work by the American master photographer, is an intact edition of Portfolio Two: The National Parks and Monuments. Consisting of 15 signed, original prints, the portfolio includes images of Yosemite National Park, Crater Lake National Park, and Glacier National Park, as well as national monuments that are today designated national parks, like Joshua Tree National Park.

“Watching Ken Burns’ National Parks: America’s Best Idea is an engrossing way to learn about adventures, poetry, and political drama surrounding these truly wild and inspiring places,” says G2 Gallery Director and Curator Jolene Hanson. Hanson says she is most looking forward to Part 5 which touches on photographer Ansel Adams’ relationship to the national parks.

Screening Schedule:

February 9: Part 1 “The Scripture of Nature (1851–1890)”

February 16: Part 2 “The Last Refuge (1890–1915)”

February 23: Part 3 “The Empire of Grandeur (1915–1919)”

March 1: Part 4 “Going Home 1920–1933)”

March 8: Part 5 “Great Nature (1933–1945)”

March 15: Part 6 “The Morning of Creation (1946–1980”