1/4/2001
Beginnings
ClampArt, New York
Clampart is pleased to announce "Beginnings," the gallery's inaugural exhibition. "Beginnings" will include contemporary photographs by four emerging artists: Brian Arnold, Alexandra Rowley, Robert Vizzini, and Serena Wellen.
Clampart is pleased to announce "Beginnings," the gallery's inaugural exhibition. "Beginnings" will include contemporary photographs by four emerging artists: Brian Arnold, Alexandra Rowley, Robert Vizzini, and Serena Wellen.
Two years ago Brian Arnold began photographing the waters of the Kanakadea
Creek in western New York state. Kanakadea translates from Iroquois as
"Where Earth Meets Sky," the title Arnold eventually chose for his body of
work. As the name implies, Arnold's black-and-white photographic landscapes
reflect the intersection of the physical and metaphysical, the material and
the immaterial, something and nothing.
Alexandra Rowley's series, "Unfathomable," addresses the artist's
long-standing fascination with the sea. After a near-drowning experience at
the age of ten, Rowley has struggled with ambivalent emotions of fear and
wonder with regard to vast waters. However, the color photographs of
"Unfathomable" also stand as an intellectual and formal consideration of the
water's persistent shifting-its immeasurable patterns and infinite hues.
Each black-and-white photograph in Robert Vizzini's series, "Communing with
the Universe," is a night exposure. Vizzini poses a challenge to himself,
determining to represent the night in a medium inherently dependent upon
light. This series has been widely published in such periodicals as Aperture, Blind Spot, DoubleTake, and Black & White Magazine.
Through freshly conceived landscape compositions, Serena Wellen's series,
"Flora," portrays the intricacies of a particular human emotion-namely love.
The intimate, sensual, and sometimes menacing color images aptly correspond
to the nuanced and often contradictory aspects of that powerful human emotion.
All of the photographs brought together beneath the title, "Beginnings,"
individually address the connotative complexity of that word and its relation
to Clampart's new venture and the spring season. For more information,
please contact Brian Paul Clamp, Director, or visit the gallery's website.
Clampart is open by appointment only.
Clampart,
250 West 27th Street, Loft 1C,
New York, NY 10001,
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