JUNE 27, 2012

The Museum of Nebraska Art presents Nebraska Now: Michael Flecky, Photographs on view July 14 – October 7, 2012

In his first solo exhibition at MONA, Father Michael Flecky, Professor of Photography, Creighton University, documents the now-rare outdoor drive-in theatres that once populated the United States. Flecky has traveled across the country to capture both defunct and still in-use drive-ins.

These black and white and color photographs are not only eloquent in their composition and presentation, but are visual records of an era in our nation’s cultural history. Photographs in this series represent the environments of familiar, historic, and sometimes abandoned structures constructed for outdoor movie entertainment. As sources for visual art and objects of attention, the projection screens in drive-in theatres are particularly engaging as blank canvases, a photographer’s dream.

Father Flecky has taught fine art photography, criticism, and history for the last 30 years. His photographs have appeared nationally in numerous one-person and juried group exhibitions, and he has published articles on photographic history and criticism. Father Flecky contributed to the Focal Press Encyclopedia of Photography and his photographs appear regularly in America Magazine, the national Jesuit magazine of opinion and the arts.

Artist Talk: Sunday, July 15, 2012 • 5:00 p.m.