NYAB Event - "Four Solo Exhibitions"

"Four Solo Exhibitions"

Soho Photo Gallery

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Three of the four member exhibitions in January will feature gallery artists who use unusual techniques to achieve alternative process look-alikes. The theme for these three is Fauxtography. Each photographer explores a different avenue and while each is unique, the combined exhibition demonstrates a strict adherence to attaining an authentic look. During the exhibition Carrion, Daniel and Youmans will demonstrate their techniques. The workshop is free and open to the public. Please check www.sohophoto.com for the time and date. On a different note, member Rosalie Frost's exhibition is partly inspired by music.

Sandy Carrion:
Carrion provides us with a set of still lifes based on items belonging to her mother and father. The show entitled Shadow Dance weaves correspondences between her parents, their parents, and relatives from the 1930's with a bin full of useless tools her father stored in the basement. Carrion used a faux emulsion lift technique reminiscent of the Polaroid lift technique made popular in the 1980s and 1990s.

Sandi Daniel:
Sandi Daniel evokes a feeling of romance and nostalgia in her work she calls Flora. Her fascination with lush gardens and landscapes is evident as she addresses the fragility of nature. To further the nostalgic quality of her images Ms. Daniel has chosen to recreate the look of the process known as Tintypes. She does this digitally, recreating the mood and aesthetic of the originals.

Lois Youmans:
Youmans continues her work with dolls as a metaphor for the human experience. These images are not of battered and forgotten antique dolls, but rather the tattered remnants of clothing they wore. Like her dolls, these bits of clothing are displayed as flawed, but beautiful objects. Youmans digitally layers her images with rough edges and textures so each photograph seems to have "aged" along with the clothing. A technique similar to the original Polaroid process is used to transfer images to watercolor paper.

Rosalie Frost:
"I found mystery and magic when shooting directly into the waters of Central Park in different seasons and different environmental conditions. The frozen or liquid surface transformed the everyday world into something unexpected. Inspiration also came from a different medium than the visual, through words and images in a Schubert song, Am See (By the Lake), which seemed to uncannily embody the abstract images I was making."