Rita Baunok, Jeff Smith, Ruth Raskin, Sandra Carrion, Dave Ortiz Solo Exhibitions

Soho Photo Gallery

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Soho Photo Gallery is pleased to announce that October’s guest exhibitor will be Dave Ortiz whose show is entitled Images Alone. Ortiz, with extensive professional experience as a photographer and consultant for museums and other cultural institutions, decided to emulate photographer Robert Frank’s ability to live by images alone
when he visited Kyoto, Japan in 2006 and had to face formidable language and cultural barriers and a midlife crisis. He then spent three weeks photographing in silence eight to ten hours a day while contemplating his future. Ortiz says, “The result of my work is a grouping of one to six images on 38 panels. Each photo’s meaning is enhanced by those around it. I envision most of my work as a book that just happened to be transferred to a gallery’s wall.
You walk through the sequence of panels the way you would leaf through a book.”

Sandra Carrion’s latest exhibit, entitled One of Many, is a series of 12 color still lifes that investigate the effect of separating a single object from its natural grouping. The extracted items are placed into new environments specifically designed for each. Soft lighting and simple composition provide a formal setting for each subject usually overlooked in nature. Items such as stones, weeds, and feathers take on a new life as Carrion creates worlds unique to each.

In Ruth Raskin’s show, entitled Prague in Black & White, the 14 gelatin silver prints feature few people and even less activity. Even so, Raskin’s work reveals the inner life of this charming city by illuminating often overlooked vistas. The photographs, taken in 2006 and 2007, feature an unusual yet realistic sense of perspective that forces the viewer to see something more than a bridge, a reflection or a view from a clock tower.

Jeff Smith calls his latest solo show Avalon. Three of his pieces began with photographs he took at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of marble busts; one with a photograph of a cast iron sidewalk grate, and the last with his photograph of an antique ladies pendant. Smith then used a color copier to make multiple copies in different sizes and mirror images. The images were then glued to foam core board, cut out and stacked to produce large three- dimensional collages.

Rita Baunok's first solo show at Soho Photo–Costa Rica– features photographs of the Caribbean coast, where the jungle meets the sea. Baunok documents an area with rain forests and sandy beaches interrupted only by mangrove swamps and river deltas. There are no tourist resorts and the wildlife is rarely disturbed. The rugged roads isolate the Caribbean coast and make it independent of mainstream Costa Rica.

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from October 07, 2008 to November 01, 2008

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