“SEA SELFIE”: This work by William Kanawyer is featured in “In Plain Sight: A Lingering View of the World Around Us,” on view November 3 through November 26 at the Gourgaud Gallery in Cranbury. An artist’s reception is on Sunday, November 3 from 1-3 p.m.

The Gourgaud Gallery in Cranbury will present “In Plain Sight: A Lingering View of the World Around Us,” the first public showing of photography by William Kanawyer, November 3 through November 26. An artist’s reception is on Sunday, November 3 from 1-3 p.m.

Kanawyer is a sixth generation native Californian. He grew up in the high desert of Southern California surrounded by actors, filmmakers, musicians, and graphic artists. While in school studying technical theater, photography, and electronics, his father died, suddenly launching him, out of need, into a career path that mixed the arts and sciences before settling into programming and computer technologies.

Kanawyer moved to Cranbury in the early 1990s where his interests in photography, audio field recording, and comfort with the rapidly expanding field of digital artistic media brought him into contact with the founding Cranbury Arts Council members Susan Leson and Martha “Marty” Hayden. Together they embarked on a number of collaborations to produce compact disk recordings of performances by and for Cranbury students.

In memoriam for Leason who passed in 2022, Kanawyer is collaborating once again with, and for the benefit of, the Cranbury Arts Council with this exhibit of his photographic work. It reflects his deep curiosity and desire to look more closely at the world that surrounds us. To linger on what may be commonplace or transient, ephemeral, to find beauty in our daily lives.

Works in the exhibit will be for sale with all proceeds benefiting the Cranbury Arts Council and its programs that support the Arts in the community. Payment should be made directly to the Cranbury Arts Council.

Gourgaud Gallery is located in Town Hall, 23-A North Main Street, Cranbury, and is free and open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For more information, visit cranburyartscouncil.org.