Evolving urban environment is focus of photo exhibit at Amarillo College

Gary McCoy says his photo exhibit, Urban Vacancies, "investigates the psychological reaction to constructed and transitional space crated through urban design, planning, development, and abandonment in Dallas."

Urban Vacancies is on display now through May 5 at Amarillo College's Southern Light Gallery. The venue is located on the first floor of the Ware Student Commons on the Washington Street Campus.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

McCoy, a product of Wichita Falls, is a photographer and educator living in Dallas. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas - Arlington, and a master's degree in photography from Texas Woman's University.

Since 1994, McCoy has taught and contributed his experience to the photography programs at The Art Institute of Dallas, Collin College, Tarrant College and Dallas College. He has managed his own commercial photography business for more than 35 years.

His continuing photography project, Urban Vacancies, primarily documents properties, environments and urban spaces in downtown Dallas and adjacent districts where evidence of transition is most obvious.

For more information about the Gary McCoy photo exhibit or the Southern Light Gallery, please contact Rene West, associate professor of photography, at rwest@actx.edu or 806-345-5654.