Six Exhibitions
dal 5/1/2015 al 30/1/2015
Segnalato da
5/1/2015
Six Exhibitions
SoHo Photo Gallery, New York
Opening the new year, SPG presents three new artists to the gallery; the images the gallery exhibited at its first Photoville exhibit; a new show by the Professional Woman Photographers organization; and the American debut of Cuban photographer Maria Cienfuegas's haunting images of Cuban family life.
Maria Cienfuegas
Portrait of the family, Cuba: 2009-2011
“I approach my work from the combined influence of art and science. My photographs emerge from these complementary systems. Within this dynamic I am interested in the social/anthropological aspects. I look for places of remembrance and forgetfulness. Photography is my way of revealing memory, in all its complexity.”
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Steven Gilbert
A Bridge Imagined
“Using parts of the Williamsburg Bridge, I have devised spaces for the imagination to play. People can seem merged with nightmarish steel, while girders and bolts can appear alive with human-like figures or suggest landscapes. These photographs are the unforeseen results of combining multiple exposures in the camera, not calculated computer manipulations in post-production; they were all surprises to me at first sight, as perhaps to you now.”
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Carol Julien
In Sight
“I am a New York City based street photographer continuously inspired by urban environments and the split second capture of life’s surprising, unscripted, fleeting moments. I never leave home without a camera in my bag. I work mostly in high contrast black and white, which often mirrors the contrasts I find between people and their surroundings in large city streets.”
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Stephen Rae
Spirit and Grit: India 1977-78
“The India I fell for as a grad student in the late 1970′s was a country imbued with strength, resolve, determination, and persistence–a will to survive and even thrive amidst abject conditions of social and economic hardship–all in the midst of an ancient environment of high spirituality. My need to rediscover my love affair with India recently drove me back to the wet darkroom, after 25 years, to print my mostly unprinted negatives.”
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Picturing the Built Environment
SPG @ Photoville
“SPG was proud to be part of Photoville 2014, the unique photo event housed in repurposed shipping containers at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Thirty-four SPG photographers participated in the exhibit. The images, each an interpretation of the gallery’s theme, The Built Environment, will be shown in the gallery this month.
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We, Au Naturel
Professional Women Photographers
“The media has created a cultural fantasy about a woman’s body, and no object has become so commodified. Alas, too many women have bought into that fiction to the detriment of their sense of self-worth, their bodies and their health. Photoshop has facilitated editorial masks, nips, and lengthening of the female form to new levels of unreality.
We, Au Naturel is a giant mosaic of images presenting the unvarnished truth about a woman’s body. Each tile accents a pelvis, a breast, or an eye or a navel, representing our individual uniqueness and reminding us what femininity is really made of.”
Image: Steven Gilbert
Opening: Tuesday, January 6, 2015, from 6pm to 8pm
Soho Photo Gallery
15 White Street
Wed - Sun 1pm to 6pm