Color-Washed Imagery

A Dustin Aksland photograph from the joint show with Amy Hicks. (Meat Market Gallery)

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By Jessica Dawson

Friday, April 25, 2008

· Though two of Dustin Aksland's big color photographs include the requisite dyspeptic suburban youth, the rest minimize humans in favor of the romantic sublime. In one picture, where a thicket of reeds nearly swallows a Reno, Nev., couple, Aksland's palette and composition suggest J.M.W. Turner slumming it.

In the gallery's rear room, Amy Hicks disorients us with video shot from a car crossing Bay Area bridges. She splits the footage into mirrored halves so the cars appear, alternately, to be wading through waist-high water or hurtling through futuristic space.

Dustin Aksland and Amy Hicks at Meat Market Gallery, 1636 17th St. NW, Wednesday-Saturday noon-6 p.m., Sunday noon-3 p.m., 202-328-6328, through Sunday; http://www.meatmarketgallery.com.