Nature photographer Michael Moryc featured in 2 exhibits at Renaissance Center

Release Date: 7/5/2005. Expired: 9/14/2005

Nashville photographer Michael Moryc has been capturing images in nature for more than 30 years and his work will be the subject to two simultaneous exhibits in The Renaissance Center’s East Wing and North Wing galleries July 29-Sept. 14.

The East Wing Gallery will feature Waterdance, a collection of cibachrome prints capturing the many different moods and personalities of water.

The North Wing Gallery will feature Flora, an exhibit exploring plant life and its importance to the environment as well as its aesthetic beauty.

Moryc will be at The Renaissance Center Aug. 5 for Arts FUSION, a statewide arts advocacy day co-hosted by the center and Community Arts Development of Dickson County.

Moryc brings a photojournalist’s instinct for the critical moment to each image. His photos are a study in both human perspective and personal vision.

The award-winning photographer teaches workshops and classes on nature photography across the country and has been published nationally in Petersen’s Photographic and Photographer’s Forum. His images appear in various gallery exhibits, calendars, postcards, catalogs, CD covers, newspapers and regional publications.

Over his career as a nature photographer, Moryc admits that water would be the one natural phenomenon that constantly fills him with wonder. In Waterdance, he captures this element that is the lifeblood to all living things.

“Water is ever-changing and this exhibit captures its many moods and personalities,” says Moryc.

In addition to the critical role plant life plays in the world’s ecology, Flora captures the aspect of plants “that infuses our existence with color, beauty, the promise of seasons and the message of love,” Moryc says. “Flowers can be simple or complex, multicolored or monochromatic, small or large. Whatever their aspects, everyone tends to have a favorite.”

Moryc’s photographs attempt to capture what might be called the nuance of flowers, finding in each its own personality and reason for existence.

The East Wing and North Wing galleries are open 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday and admission is always free. For more information on Moryc’s exhibits or other displays in The Renaissance Center, contact curator Curtis Southerland at (615) 740-5519 or curtis.southerland@rcenter.org.

The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education center sat 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.

Visit the Visual Arts Gallery page for more about the gallery.

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