Close Views (From a Distance)
Oct 28 - Nov 21
Opening Reception: Thurs Nov 5:30-8:30PM & Sat Nov 14 3-6PM
Featuring: Susan Arthur-Whitson, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Judy Gelles, Benjamin Pierce, and Blaise Tobia
The five Philadelphia-based photographers exhibiting in this show look very c... Read more
Close Views (From a Distance)
Oct 28 – Nov 21
Opening Reception: Thurs Nov 5:30-8:30PM & Sat Nov 14 3-6PM
Featuring: Susan Arthur-Whitson, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Judy Gelles, Benjamin Pierce, and Blaise Tobia
The five Philadelphia-based photographers exhibiting in this show look very closely at the world and at the photographs they produce. Susan Arthur-Whitson works literally in close-up range; the miniature objects she sets in ambiguous locales gain strength from her careful staging and technique. Blaise Tobia looks closely at the urban landscape and telling segments of material culture; he then finds complex formal and conceptual relationships within and among the resulting photographs. Similarly, Ditta Baron Hoeber looks intently at human interactions and then at the photographs she has made, finding forms, patterns, gesture, and other revealing elements. Judy Gelles’s primary subject is the social environment and her means of representation merges photographs and recounted stories into a formally and conceptually unified whole. Benjamin Pierce is concerned with form and its recognition; usually his forms derive from the human body. In the video work he has made for this show, the concept of human form extends to vocal and musical patterns as well.
