The 13 large format photographs featured in this new exhibition are tender oceanscapes that move beyond typical depictions of the sea. Photographed moments before dusk or dawn, out in the surf, the evanescent horizon line in each image creates an illusory sense of space. In "First Beach, Newport. July 2017", the bluish-black of the ocean and the sky are indistinguishable as their colors blend into one muted noise. "The waves blur the horizon and produce a dark movement", McLaughlin explains. The long exposures of the photographs find a vanishing point between form and void-like fleeting memories.

The Robin Rice Gallery proudly announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2018, an annual photography exhibit featuring gallery artists as well as a few newcomers.

Rice has brought together the works of 55 gallery artists and nearly a hundred photographs for this salon-style exhibition. From floor to ceiling, the walls of the gallery are a mosaic of various size photographs in sepia, color and black and white, expertly hung to fit together like pieces of a puzzle.

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.

Photographed entirely in the ethereal lakeside environs of the Adirondacks, Lynda Churilla's latest exhibition synthesizes the aesthetics of strength and softness. Central to this aesthetic theme is the portrayal of Churilla's husband and muse John, who she describes as a source of inspiration. Standing nude and silhouetted in the foreground, the powerful form of John's body is rendered stoic and subdued by multiple mist‐wreathed aquatic expanses and looming woodland scenes.

In the hazy, warm New York summer, little is more refreshing than reclining on the beach in the mist of the icy ocean waves or enjoying a family trip to the country house. Each summer, Rice curates her favorite show, the Summertime Salon, which reminds us of this exact seasonal sentiment. The two, long walls of the gallery become mosaicked, top to bottom, side to side, in photographs that evoke all the preeminent feelings and memories of summer. Each year, the Summertime Salon matures and Rice's annual masterpiece comes into fruition. This year is no exception. The show is a haven of what the Robin Rice Gallery stands for, a community of art and experience.

In his latest show, Benjamin Heller invites us to enter a poetic space of echo and convergence. As a photographer, sculptor, and performer, movement is key in this body of work, that is punctuated by self portraits selected from the series "The Long Walk: Analog Narratives". This series features pieces collected over an extended period of time spent traveling. It is a window to the interior landscapes he seeks to find reflected in the world, to contain a sense of this intimate vastness. All of the images can be viewed as variations on a self-portrait.

When one thinks of the summertime, a million different smells, sights, sounds, and memories manifest. Each year, Rice curates a summertime salon show that captures this multiplicity, displaying a diversity of styles, themes, nuances, and artist techniques. For 2015, Rice has brought together the works of 51 artists mosaicking the walls of the gallery walls from floor to ceiling with nearly a hundred photographs, their various sizes, color schemes and subject matter expertly laid out to fit together like the pieces of an eclectic puzzle.

Pelican Finn, a reference to the subject’s name, broadly illustrates the relationship between individual and environment while specifically capturing a Cuban American woman’s relationship to the Florida Everglades, a world heritage site and the largest wetland on earth. Shooting through the intense and wild conditions inherent to the setting, Schilling creates a magical, dreamlike world that captures the untamed spirit of both the Everglades and Finn, who was introduced to the Everglades in flight from Cuba to the United States for the first time.

Every year, the gallery owner curates the show to best exemplify the 56 exhibited artists' strengths and aesthetics, remaining cohesively linked by Robin's extensive knowledge of her artists and of photography. "This is my favorite exhibit, even though it takes months to curate and a week to install," says Robin. "It is my curatorial showcase." From floor to ceiling, the walls of the gallery rooms are a mosaic of nearly a hundred photographs, their various sizes, color schemes and subject matter expertly laid out to fit together like the pieces of an eclectic puzzle.

In this exhibition, Clayton's aquatic, figurative photographs contain an attention to detail that leaves the viewer constantly discovering new information within them. His oblique compositions are a profusion of the quirky, the surreal, and the ambiguous, all of which are permeated by a haunting presence. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.

"…A man reaches inside his body to show his heart to others. It reminds me of the life of an artist; we bare our hearts and ideas to the world."

Hayman isn't describing one of his own photographs, rather, he's referring to a drawing by one of his favorite artist's—Odilon Redon—that bares the same title, The Heart Has Its Reasons. However you define Hayman's work, the still life photographs are deafeningly quiet. You can just about hear yourself breathe as you address a hat, a shirt, a boat, or a torso. He brings the viewer to the rarest of experiences - a truly still moment. It's a hard experience to find today.

In this dream-based series, water becomes a metaphor for sky. The invitational image, Bourrée, depicts a woman suspended in soft hues of blue, floating upward as if ascending into the heavens. In Arabesque, the model seems to tumble gracefully through clouds, arms outstretched. Olson's color images are surreal and mysterious. In most of the images there are refractions of light and bits of clouds that blend together, leaving us feeling as if we are looking at watercolor paintings.

When the viewer steps into the Robin Rice Gallery they are transported to a different medium. The room is set up to mimic the book, inviting the viewer to walk through its pages. The phrase, "You Look at Me Like an Emergency," shouts in white hand written script against the back red wall, replicating the cover. Photographs of varying scale line the walls salon style and free-writing excerpts run along the chair rails, telling of Harvey's universally poignant story: One of relationship failures, falling in love and adjusting to motherhood. Through vivid color and perfect composition of family, friends, found objects and the artist herself, we are seduced.

The Robin Rice Gallery announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2012, the annual group show of photographs by gallery artists.

This yearly show is synonymous with summer. The collection immerses the viewer in the mood of the season with its breezy and joyful tone fused with a contemporary edge. The artful curation reflects Rice’s signature style—an aesthetically unified yet eclectic blend of photographic styles and sizes hung in the salon from floor to ceiling. The SUMMERTIME Salon highlights Rice’s talent for selecting diverse, intriguing images that come together like a beautifully complicated puzzle to evoke the perfect harmony of summer. It is the best of what is and what might be—full of peacefulness, yet ripe with possibilities to be seized.

Kocharian’s work focuses on the interaction of the individual and the surrounding nature: a forest, body of water or urban street. Just as nature transforms our environment, so does the object in the picture evolve, symbolizing an internal shift. The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.

This exhibition, at once mysterious and revealing, reflects one man’s journey in search of love, vacillating from memories to hope. The collection is a fusion of neo-realism and symbolism. It’s the central figure’s relationship to the environment that elevates the images beyond realism, representing the transformational power in nature and within ourselves.

The Robin Rice Gallery announces the annual group show of photographs by gallery artists entitled SUMMERTIME Salon 2011.

This year’s annual celebration of summer, at once modern and sentimental, playful and reflective, is an expression of the aesthetic cultivated by the gallery over the last 21 years. While most of the 100 plus pieces are chosen from the gallery’s repertoire of solo shows it also is the one time to invite newcomers, presenting the opportunity Rice to showcase her vision:

“Putting the show together is like arranging a beautiful complicated puzzle that takes days to install. Visitors always linger longer than any other show and I never want to take it down.”

In her new exhibition Churilla draws from her years spent as a swimmer, lifeguard, and athlete to capture the forgotten freedom and exuberance of days of youth spent on the water.Viva la Vida is a mix of timeless portraits and candid photographs "I’ve always been drawn to the water- now my art, my sense of athleticism, freedom and oasis have merged in a way", says Churilla. Her nod to iconic photographers from the past, such as Edward Weston, and Herbert List, is apparent in her portrait work.

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.

Bill Phelps eliminates all the props, save his model, and plunges into the ocean, literally and symbolically in the fourteen, black and white limited edition archival prints featured in his second solo exhibition with the Robin Rice Gallery. Using a tight close-up as his point of view, Phelps submerges your senses into the sparkling surf, where occasionally a naked body lurks suggestively, playing in and out of your sight.

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.

In the debut of the series “Isild Le Besco: the Early Years”, fans of French film will be especially captivated by Kocharian’s images which amplify the radiance and mercurial energy of the gifted French actress Isild Le Besco.

PETE KELLY - MOMENT TO MOMENT

ROSANNE OLSON - 2005

JOHN DOLAN - 2004

VICTORIA GOLDMAN - FEMME

KATHRYN SZOKA - VANISHING LANDSCAPES EAST END LONG ISLAND - 2002

ROSANNE OLSON - 2002

PETE KELLY - 2002

Graced with an Irving Penn-like flair for capturing elegance and ease, this collection of boldly composed black and white photographs by Silvia Lareo-Vazquez is transportive. It takes viewers on vacation. Lareo-Vazquez focuses closely on people, frequently gazing over their shoulders as they relax at the beach or at pool side or as they engage in other activities such as viewing a new haircut or idly watching a game of bacci.