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Muddy Waters Coffee House (521 Valencia Street): Sung Yoon Kang & Steven Brown - The Mythologists.

Comment by AB: This is the surprise of the night. Curator Daniel Pelt who works at Muddy Waters and at Queen's Nails Annex tells me this two-person photography show is part of what's called "Queen's Nails Annex Extensions." Photographer Steven Brown tells me his frank unpretentious slice-of-life personality studies are of people and places he knows in Georgia. Photographer Sung Yoon Kang tells me his altered digital compositions actually consist of many individual images (or sometimes the opposite-- he removes details instead of adds 'em). For example, he adds cars to a freeway or parking lot, or people to a street scene, removes people from a city scene, or even alters the geographical or architectural makeup of a landscape or coastal scene. Good work on both counts; Sung Yoon Kang's work is particularly impressive from a technical standpoint (I think the dude's close to gallery-ready, or maybe even ready already). Worth a perusal.