NYAB Event - “PHOTO-FINISH” Exhibition

“PHOTO-FINISH” Exhibition

Station Independent Projects

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Curated by David Gibson of Gibson Contemporary, NYC

Photographs tell the truth. That has always been their role, and their burden at times when art needed them to do otherwise. In order to tell a story the photograph often has to diverge from its prosaic role as the purveyor of straightforward meaning. What we view in a photograph may often seem to present a situation or scene in which we could easily place ourselves, yet their very details-facts to an untrained eye-are chosen because they fulfill an aesthetic idea that is not stated. As the artistic practice of photography has evolved, with technological advancements filtering into the presentational mode of exhibitions, it has become more common to read the topical fabric of the picture as a poetically driven moment captured first by the camera itself, second by its author’s creative pruning, and finally by the responsive intelligence of the viewer.

The artists in PHOTO-FINISH each have reasons or objectives that mold the sense of purpose inherent to their work. Their oeuvres are not limited to a single message, but to the texture of meaning fulfilled by the veracity of their indivdual visions. Kristin Anderson documents the hidden realm of appearances by which tourists seeking to obsessively document relics or sites in the Holy Land are reduced to a single motive: devotion. Christine Callahan mines the lost register of emotional reflection in her series “Edge of Happiness” in which chance encounters with spaces and perspectives open up the potential for discovery so that form, light, and connection to place can bring knowledge and joy simultaneously. Bill Durgin explores the loaded genre of the human nude in set pieces that explode perception, heightening sensuality while complicating the voyeuristic aspects so that beauty becomes part of an equation whose solution is obscure at best. Holly Lynton explores rural communities that struggle to maintain their agarian traditions, balancing both a domination of, and a surrender to, the natural life all around them.

David Gibson is a New York based art writer and curator of exhibitions with a 25-year history in various professional roles of the Art World. To date he has organized over 130 separate solo and group exhibitions, worked with nonprofits, artist run organizations, lectured at several state Universities and colleges of art. His writings have been published in Flash Art and Frieze, and PlaySpace Magazine among others. Exhibitions, events, and spaces he has organized have been written about or reported in by Art in America, Blouin Artinfo, The Brooklyn Rail, Bushwick Daily, Chelsea Now, Cleveland Scene, James Kalm’s Rough Cuts, New York Arts, The Cleveland Free Times, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Hampshire Gazette, The Huffington Post, The Miami Herald, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Time Out New York.

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