Oaxaca - Images and Echoes

Photo Credit: Richard Wilkins

If you're interested in seeing some beautiful photography, a new exhibit showing the work of Richard Wilkins* opens today and runs through July 24th at the Loading Dock Gallery in Lowell.

In Oaxaca: Images and Echoes, photographs reveal the heart of the ancient Mexican city, Oaxaca (wa-hah-kah).

A portfolio of haunting portraits shot over ten days, landscapes and street scenes, records life where the clothing, jobs, and creations of its people still reflect its indigenous cultures.

Wilkins is a portrait photographer who avoids formal portraits. “I am an opportunistic photographer,” he explains. “I constantly scan the environment and wait for the images to present themselves.”

Wilkins received his MS in Journalism from Kent State and his MBA from Harvard. He served in Korea during the Vietnam War. Essentially a self-taught artist, he worked for most of his life in the corporate world.


Photographer Richard Wilkins

“As a scruffy kid from the projects, I was fortunate enough to live just blocks away from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and spend time in an after school program there. That experience has had a lasting impact on me and my desire to create art of some kind.”

Wilkins lives with his wife in Jamaica Plain, where they enjoy the diversity of the area’s residents, its youthful orientation and the strong presence of artists. He has a studio at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell.

Photo Credit: Richard Wilkins

If you'd like to meet the artist, join him at the opening reception, Friday, July 8, 2011, 6-9pm.


*Richard Wilkins is my uncle and I've written about him here before. His work is amazing and I wish him all the best!


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