Unfamiliar Territory:
Photographs by
Oscar Palacio

This exhibition presents new photographs by Colombian-born, Boston-based artist Oscar Palacio. Dark and haunting images, some of which were created in the Merrimack Valley during his time as the Addison's 2004 Edward E. Elson artist-in-residence, Palacio's color photographs capture details and fragments of familiar surroundings.

Navigating city streets and sidewalks, Palacio often focuses on the intersection and overlap of the natural and constructed: an absurdly tiny picket fence protects a carefully manicured lawn; a persistent and bushy evergreen pokes through the confines of bright blue chain link.

Teetering somewhere between the knowable and unknowable, these photographs point out the subtle oddities of daily life and reveal harmonies and delicate beauty in what we often overlook.