Last Days of a Solo Show: The Emotion

My solo show LOST UTOPIAS ended this week. There's so much emotion involved in showing work you are very close to. First, I didn't want my prints to be by themselves and felt guilty if I abandoned them too long. I got over that, only for the show to be over! Now of course, I am filled with sadness. There is really nothing equivalent to the feeling of being in a beautiful space surrounded by nothing but stuff you have made. It is nothing short of magic. Here are some installation shots:

LOST UTOPIAS opening at Broadway Gallery

Well this past Tuesday my first solo show of world's fair work opened at the Broadway Gallery in Soho. The whole thing came about quickly, so the show is only up for 9 brief, tantalizing days. The opening was amazing---tons of friends, supporters, colleagues, and professors from grad school came and supported. People responded very positively to the project. It was awesome!
Lambert and Erica at the start of the opening

Yours truly with my photos of Paris, Spokane, and Seattle in the background---and my glass of 2 Buck Chuck

Yusuke Nishimura

The postcard image; the Brussels 1897 site.

My photograph of the 1876 Philadelphia toilet buildings caught a lot of people's imaginations.

SHOWS AND MORE SHOWS

Hello! I am back after the holidays and madly preparing for two shows. I hope you, my faithful readers, will find it in your new year's hearts to attend the openings!
Information here:

ERIN GLEESON at the BROADWAY GALLERY

Food for
Thought:
Photography by
Erin Gleeson

Curated by Jade Doskow
At Broadway Gallery, 473 Broadway
(212) 274-8993


Opening Reception:
Friday December 19th, 6-8 p.m.




Broadway Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibit of Food for Thought: Photography by Erin Gleeson, curated by Jade Doskow, which will open on Tuesday, December 16th and close on Tuesday, December 30th, with a reception for the artist on Friday, December 19th from 6-8 p.m.

In the midst of the holiday season, the one constant most everyone can agree upon is the food. Erin Gleeson finds glamour and beauty in cuisine both everyday and exotic in her photography. In the Payard series---on display in the Broadway Gallery's project room---Gleeson teamed up with the renowned pastry chef Francois Payard, creating ethereal, colorful collages that mingle food and fantasy.
Enjoy the show, and remember....the pictures are not edible!

Show Opening November 7th: Rachel Barrett at the Broadway Gallery, Curated by Jade Doskow

RACHEL BARRETT:
THE NEW AMERICAN LANDSCAPE
Curated by Jade Doskow
At Broadway Gallery, 473 Broadway
(212) 274-8993
www.broadwaygallerynyc.com

Opening Reception: Friday, November 7th, 6-8 p.m.

Broadway Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibit of Rachel Barrett: The New American Landscape, curated by Jade Doskow, which will open on Saturday, November 1st and close on Saturday, November 15th, with a reception for the artist on Friday, November 7th from 6-8 p.m.




Working in the tradition of a long and rich photographic history, Rachel Barrett isolates odd, often dreamy moments, framing for the viewer a delicate choreography between people and the natural and constructed environment. Like the pictures of Barrett's predecessors, from Atget to Winogrand to Shore, the familiar and the strange are often swapped or the boundaries nebulous.

The protagonists of Barrett's world become characters in a drama only the artist understands; it is up to the viewer to insert themselves in their own way into these vignettes. Barrett's figures are small in scale within the frame, and they are seemingly about to be swallowed by the earth and sky around them. The work is pensive, moody, a bit theatrical---the lost melodramas of everyday life frozen and presented for inspection.

This is Rachel Barrett's first solo show in New York. More of her work can be seen at www.rachelbarrett.net