After 30 years on West 11th Street, The Robin Rice Gallery celebrates its first ever exhibition for Robin Rice. For decades, Robin has exhibited a wide variety of photographers at the gallery but never her own work. As the show’s title denotes, “It’s About Time.”
In this exhibition, Picayo seeks to revive the concept of unadulterated beauty captured as a single moment in time. An unapologetic user of film, Picayo prides himself on his avoidance of digital processing for personal work.
In this exhibition, Mindaugas Gabrenas invites us to reflect on the poetics of place through his lyrical and surrealist imagery. His hand-printed silver gelatin prints reveal abandoned regions, wild coasts and strange territories from Lithuania to Scotland to America. As a scientific innovator, he uses unique techniques and unconventional materials in order to create his whimsical, dream photos.
Pete Kelly’s latest show admirably showcases the lush greenness, diverse landscape, and ever-fleeting light of the British terrain. We are invited to join his excursions throughout the country as he brings light to the captivating, idiosyncratic characteristics of the land. He captures the oddities of the landscape; solitary figures bathing in sunlight, silhouette of a frolicking Great Dane in the mist, and subtle remnants of a bygone era. Kelly’s incredibly unique, picturesque editing style further mythologizes his subjects, he meddles with an air of mystery that defines the viewers experience.
This photo exploration of exquisite, 100-plus-year-old specimens of trees found in a New Jersey public arboretum is a follow-up study of the artist's 2004 exhibition of Florida palms. Intended to isolate and showcase trees, the exhibit presents José's interpretation of what is simple and uncomplicated about his subjects while also revealing them swathed in stand-alone beauty alongside a tangle of roots and branches.
Pete Kelly's latest show evokes memory through strong associative, emotional and surreal imagery—stretching reality toward a timeless fantasia. Through his collection, Kelly invites viewers to not only the bear witness to the moments he has captured in frame, but provides tangible windows of access in each piece, rousing their faded cache of memories and permitting them to relive each experience as if it were their own.
The Berkshire Project was offered to John Dolan in the form of a yearlong grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation in honor of its 20th anniversary. An award-winning photographer, Dolan was chosen to document the region’s scenic beauty and local character because his images are prized for their ability to convey the vital spirit of the people and places he photographs.
Cig has been using past and present personal experiences as her source of inspiration for her photographs for the past 10 years. "You Look at Me Like An Emergency" is a collection of images from Cig's latest portfolios. She considers the photographs, vignettes that depict autobiographical daily life. They are an attempt to legitimize her moments of uncertainty, as well as, to visually celebrate times of elation, when we are reminded that the world, in all its complexities, can be mind-blowingly beautiful.
Using an endless palette of brilliant hues, Cig Harvey’s autobiographical works depict everyday things from unusual perspectives, evoking humor and intrigue. Through the interplay of gestures, settings, color and simple props, these bold yet fragile works represent a unique form of storytelling which both seduces and delights.
The invitational image, “The Impossible Tasks” series, is a witty attempt to explain her overwhelming feelings of displacement and the ubiquitous search for home. We see her awkwardly attempting to water an enormous expanse of grass with a single watering can. Selections from her earlier series,“Eyes Like Disappointed Lemons”, is also being shown at the gallery. This portfolio, made to mark her 30th birthday, uses color, form and metaphor in an attempt to discuss ideas of age, disillusion and expectations. Cig finds redemption in creating order out of chaos and beauty out of pain.
KATHRYN SZOKA - VANISHING LANDSCAPES EAST END LONG ISLAND - 2002
