Glenn Lieberman “Repossession: The Catskills”
Atlantic Gallery
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Repossession: The Catskills speaks of neglected, forgotten places, spawned by the collapse of local economies in the 1970s due to the huge decline of a clientele no longer interested in the booming vacation spots that once populated the Catskill Mountains region known as the “Borscht Belt.”
The exhibition consists of landscape and interior structures - many of which, destined for final reclamation by the earth - that tell a story of abandonment and decay. For Lieberman the narrative, no matter how outwardly inconsequential, holds fascination or importance as a function of its success in revealing something cogent about human life. The idea is, of course, not remarkable. But it is for him at the center of what makes a photographic image exciting and meaningful.
Lieberman’s photographs are digitally generated. Shot in color, most images are transformed into black and white and printed on a variety of archival papers selected, by texture and the degree of warmth of tone, to match the content of the image. Images that retain their color do so based, as well, upon content as, it would appear, some images require color to bring forward their message and maintain the integrity of their geometrical organization as works of art.
Glenn Lieberman began adult life as a composer and, at about the same time, purchased a first camera. Since, he has written “classical” music receiving a number of honors, among them grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In more recent years, however, his love of photography has produced a shift in concentration, and a consistent record of photo exhibition.
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Schedule
from September 09, 2014 to October 04, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-09-11 from 17:00 to 20:00