“We See You” Exhibition

“We See You” Exhibition

Fountain House Gallery

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Curated by Frank Maresca

Fountain House Gallery, located at 702 Ninth Avenue at 48th Street and representing artists living with mental illness, presents a photography show We See You.

For this show, Fountain House Gallery artists were asked to photograph the West-40s environment of the Gallery and of its parent organization, Fountain House, as well as the wider Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood that is their vibrant extended community.

We See You is curated by Frank Maresca, Director of Ricco/Maresca Gallery, who said, “This exhibition presents a slice of the Fountain House milieu, and the mental health community at large, as seen through hundreds of photographs by more than 35 Fountain House Gallery artists. We See You is curated in a purely democratic manner, including all who submitted work in the open call. The installation plays with the CMYK color model—the building block for every color print—to illuminate the accessibility and spontaneity of the work, while also serving as a metaphor for the rainbow of lives growing under the wings of Fountain House.”

Maresca continued, “Everyone in this collective of artists is essentially a co-curator, because they’ve selected a part of their neighborhood and represented it visually; I just focused their vision. All the images included in this exhibition very effectively convey the full spectrum of what I look for in a photograph: the play of light and shadow, humor, humanity, and the fleeting moments or details that often get lost in the flux of the urban landscape.”

Each photograph presented in We See You is sized at 8 by 10 inches and is priced at $30.00.

This program is funded, in part, by generous support from the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the David Rockefeller Fund, and the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.

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