Thomas Alleman’s urban landscapes convey the pulsating energy and sensual excitement of city life. With an eye for the visual rhythms and geometry of buildings, highways and parks, his photographs transform ordinary structures and events into emotionally charged images of modern life. “Hollywood Freeway,” the image featured on the invitation, is a perfect example. Through Alleman’s lens, the evening rush hour becomes an abstract in motion, shimmering like jeweled brocade. Alternating between reality and fantasy, his image is rich in emotional content.

Ron Hamad creates one-of-a-kind photographs that act as portals to another time. Through his use of landscapes, still lives and figurative studies, Hamad creates dreamscapes that guide you to a meditative state beyond words and reason.

Hamad’s first solo at the gallery will feature seventeen of his 16” x 20” unique Lith prints. Lith prints feature soft, warm, creamy, grainless tones in the highlights, and hard, cold, gritty ones in the shadows. Several photographs feature circular vignettes reminiscent of works created by the earliest photographic pioneers.

SUMMERTIME - 2008

In an age of artificial beauty,” photographer Jose Picayo explains, "where absolute perfection has become society’s standard, we are often disheartened by the reality of our own flawed reflections in the mirror.” With his newest series, Picayo seeks to revive the concept of pure and unadulterated beauty, spontaneously captured.

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.

Danielle Epstein’s latest collection of photographs will seduce you. Using repetition and scale, Epstein’s clear, crisp photos of ordinary objects form intriguing patterns that naturally activate your curatorial and artistic sensibilities.

Her matte photographs measuring 16in x 2ft and 16in x 6ft, picture stones, wood and other natural and domestic detail. Their geometric layout suggests a pictorial language. It’s easy to regard each photo as a single gesture, yet when joined with others, they become part of a visual phrase.