John Kenny Exhibition “After/Images“

Lumen Gallery

poster for John Kenny Exhibition “After/Images“

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Contemporary photographer John Kenny exhibits a remarkable series of monochrome landscape photographs, made brilliant by the use of a specially modified camera, in his exhibition entitled “After/Images“.

Kenny’s landscape photographs, made by the action of normally invisible light, reveal astonishing realms of detail. This presence of the usually unseen, combined with exquisite focus, depth of field and the motifs of luxuriant vegetation that Kenny chooses, create the impression that nature has been hyper-revealed by the photographer. This effect is doubtless related to Kenny’s distinguished background in the theater and television which includes two Emmy awards for outstanding achievement in art direction.

For Kenny, the effect of the modified camera is surprisingly paradoxical: although the images are made more naturalistic, nature is also transformed just enough to shift the awareness of the viewer to structural elements. In this latter sense the photographs resist the usual expectations of viewers of landscape imagery: stereotypes of beauty are bypassed, sentiment is avoided and conceptual veneer is not applied. Instead, the emphasis is on composition, patterns of lines, and lights and darks. Perhaps most compelling of all are the intricate “over-all” compositions, which rival the painterly achievements of the New York School.

Kenny was featured in an exhibition at Ocean Beach, New York in 2007 and showed works at the Danese Gallery in Chelsea in 2008. His upcoming exhibition will continue through June 29th. Lumen Gallery is an elegant, street level gallery at the southern end of the upper east side whose mission focuses on the display of art created by contemporary American and European artists.

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Schedule

from June 12, 2012 to June 29, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-06-12 from 18:00 to 20:30

Artist(s)

John Kenny

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