"Four Members’ Solo Exhibitions"
Soho Photo Gallery
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"At Auschwitz: A Remembrance" by R. Wayne Parsons
The artist explores the Holocaust in a series of small photographs taken at Auschwitz. Parsons believes that pretty pictures of the Holocaust are immoral, but that we still have an obligation to remember it in our art, literature and history. Because the evil of the Holocaust is so immense that we need not emphasize it, these images of ordinary objects are deliberately non-dramatic and unobtrusive. It is our collective memory of what these objects represent that makes them so important.
"Walk-Ups" by David Monderer
Between a townhouse and a high rise, these century-old buildings give New York character and remind us of our urban immigrant culture. They are hard to capture. Street widths don’t allow enough distance to frame the entire structure. Lighting conditions are such that the top floors vary greatly from bottom floors in brightness. Parked vehicles obstruct views. Monderer overcame these hurdles by photographing sections of the building and then merging them together.
"Laurel" By Bob Elliott
The underlying theme of this exhibition is "The Blind Men and the Elephant," the 19th century poem by John Godfrey Saxe. Continuing ‘Bodies of Paint’, my close up photographs of abstract body paintings, I created a series of images with only one model. Using different color palettes, and parts of the body, I created a broad range of photographs, so the same model would appear very different in each image.
"Flying Eggplant #5" by Richard Gardner
In Gardner’s first solo show at Soho Photo, the artist fashions a still life from found objects, the only constants being a human icon and the number 5. Photographed in quick succession, using the same camera, lens and aperture, the deliberate image has few chances to emerge, if it happens at all. The sculpture is destroyed and birthed again the following week in another incarnation.
[Image: R. Wayne Parsons "Untitled"]
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Schedule
from May 03, 2011 to June 04, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-05-03 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
R. Wayne Parsons, David Monderer, Bob Elliott, Richard Gardne