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29/2/2012

Michal Ronnen Safdie

Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York

Andrea Meislin Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new photographs by Michal Ronnen Safdie. This will be the artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Please join us for an opening reception with the artist on Thursday, March 1st from 6 – 8 pm.

Ronnen Safdie's new body of work, Sunday Tuesday Thursday, portrays Orthodox women and children at a beach in Israel, north of Tel Aviv. The title of the exhibition refers to the days in which this particular beach is open to use by Orthodox women – on the other days it is exclusively male territory. A portrait emerges through Ronnen Safdie's photographic inquiry of a culture that most viewers have never seen before. Ronnen Safdie is able to use her access to this world to capture the touching and surprising individual moments occurring within the larger whole.

Sunday Tuesday Thursday will also include a catalogue with an essay by noted scholar, critic and Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt. In his writing, Greenblatt remarks on the "overwhelming femaleness" of the photographs that initially catch the viewer's eye. Greenblatt goes on to say that, "we seem to look down, as if we were one of the lifeguards, on hundreds of women and children spilling across the entire space and occupying almost every available inch of sand and water." Ronnen Safdie provides a fascinating look into this previously unexplored territory and, at a moment when women's place in society has become an explosive issue in Israel, the exhibition is particularly timely.

Ronnen Safdie has a diverse body of work and has explored anthropomorphic trees, ice formations on the Charles River, vapor trails as well as human rights issues in Rwanda, Darfur and the Western Wall. Her works from Africa, entitled Rwanda: After, Darfur: Now, were exhibited at the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles, the Salt Lake City Public Library, and Nazareth College Arts Center, Rochester, New York. The photographs of refugees from Darfur are also part of the group exhibition Darfur/Darfur, which has been exhibited at prestigious venues around the world. Additionally Ronnen Safdie's series exploring the natural world have been exhibited at Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto and David Gallery, Los Angeles.

Opening 1 march 6-8 pm

Andrea Meislin Gallery
526 West 26th Street, (Suite 214) New York
Gallery Hours are Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 6 pm
Admission free

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