FOCUS: 3rd Annual Abstract Photography Exhibition, December 3 – January 15, 2011

Posted on: Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
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JANETTE BRADLEY SMITH
HOWARD BRUNNER
KEN CUSHMAN
TIM FITTS
ROSE MACKIEWICZ
BENJAMIN PIERCE
DAVID SACKS

Artist Reception: December 4, 5 – 7 pm
First Friday: December 3, 6 – 8:30 pm
First Friday: January 7, 6 – 8:30

LGTripp Gallery is pleased to present FOCUS: 3rd Annual Abstract Photography Exhibition. Seven artists express their unique perspective through photography, a wide range of works and styles, aesthetically varied, employing diverse approaches to expose the obscured in the ordinary. They explore the unlimited possibilities of abstracting the subject through the lens, isolating and capturing the pure abstracted essence of their subjects with little to no additional digital manipulation. Immerging imagery renders a fresh visual experience, challenging perception and the imagination.

American abstract photographer and educator Aaron Siskind (1903-1999) wrote in his 1945 essay, “The Drama of Objects”, “Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around to the right. Watch them grow large as you approach, group and regroup themselves as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assume themselves with finality. And that’s your picture.”

JANETTE BRADLEY SMITH: “Along one path, I walk to specific places and photograph – I call them my looking places. They become my medium for seeing the day and thinking the thoughts I need to think. This work represents a seven-year transformation of my path and my self.”

HOWARD BRUNNER: “The City is endlessly inspiring in purely visual, abstract and formal terms. For me, a successful photograph is one that manages to convey, in a print, the magic I felt from the original encounter.”

KEN CUSHMAN: “I use small, highly reflective materials as a means of observing and revealing light. I am attentive to how the materials capture a specific situation and time of day, and the intimate landscapes of shapes and lines they create.”

TIM FITTS: “I like to present the personality of subjects rather than the form itself. This series explores the personality of light contained in a glass…focusing on refraction, reflection, the texture of glass itself, and capturing simultaneously over- and under-exposed images.”

ROSE MACKIEWICZ: “I create tabletop still lifes and tableaus composed from bits of cloth, canvas, wood, cardboard, plastic, glass and junk. Some surfaces are painted, lit with gels, shot through glass or semi-transparent materials.”

BENJAMIN PIERCE: “My work centers around the human figure…subjected to strong abstracting forces. These images take the opposite tack — like Michelangelo, searching forthe figure in the stone.”

DAVID SACKS: “Spectrolite was discovered in 1940 during WWII. In May 2007 I was introduced to these iridescent stones, began importing them from Finland and photographing them. I’m careful not to alter the brilliant colors when printing. Each photograph is an accurate representation of the stone.”

Duo Exhibition: Rebecca A. Jacoby — Resonances, Miriam Singer — Built-Up

Posted on: Thursday, November 11th, 2010

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REBECCA A. JACOBY — Resonances
MIRIAM SINGER — Built Up

October 22 – November 27, 2010
Artist Reception: October 23, 5 – 7 pm
First Friday: November 5, 6 – 8:30 pm

LGTripp Gallery is pleased to announce solo exhibitions of new works by Rebecca Jacoby and Miriam Singer. The aesthetic and mediums of these two artists are clearly dissimilar. Jacoby is a painter and Singer creates detailed drawings. Shared is their appreciation and penchant for collage, incorporating it into their individual creative processes.

Sketching her way through the urban landscape, drawing silhouettes of all things in sight, documenting a place and moment in time, Miriam Singer’s drawings tell a story. On folded printmaking paper she draws a visual journal of her daily ventures throughout the city, often spanning several weeks. These become starting points for collages. To expand the drawings, silkscreen, wood block, monotype and an etching press become part of Singer’s creative process. Imagery and density are enhanced by the embellishment of details, adding layer upon layer, resulting in colorful narrative compositions. Imaginative maps convey the tension, playfulness, eccentricity, chaos, charm and surreal nature of city life.

Miriam Singer is a printmaker/painter originally from Buffalo, NY, currently residing in Philadelphia. She received an undergraduate degree in studio art and sociology from Brandeis University and an MFA in painting with a concentration in printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art. Her work was recently displayed at The Philadelphia International Airport as an Independent Project of Philagrafika 2010.

Recent paintings by Rebecca Jacoby evolved from an earlier focus in printmaking and its process, a passion for mark making on paper, and collage. In a palette of vibrant colors, disc-like shapes and irregular forms emerge and recede, appear to float across the surface, yet remain grounded. The juxtaposition of colorful playful forms with deliberate markings, some painted and others inscribed, form a visual language consistent in all her work. Colors interact and resonate harmoniously across the breadth of the paintings. Significant to Jacoby’s process is the intuitive placement of relics torn from previous works to create a collage. Imagery emerges, evolves and mingles, an incarnation of a magical world.

Rebecca Jacoby is from Montclair, NJ, now residing in Philadelphia. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College and a Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute with a concentration in printmaking. She freelances as an archivist.

Event at gallery on Saturday, November 13, 2010

Posted on: Tuesday, November 9th, 2010


Future Exhibition: FOCUS

Posted on: Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

3rd ANNUAL ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

December 3, 2010 – January 15, 2011
Artist Reception, December 4, 5 – 7 pm
First Friday, December 3, 6 – 8:30 pm
First Friday, January 7, 6 – 8:30 pm

Presenting works by:

Janette Bradley Smith
Howard Brunner
Ken Cushman
Tim Fitts
Rose Mackiewicz
Benjamin Pierce
David Sacks