All the artists who appear in the 2020 spotlight were scheduled for gallery exhibitions this year. Instead, we are introducing them and their work to you individually, online (and for sale), over the next few months. AND, for those of you who find yourself on Warren Street, Hudson NY, we are presenting the Spotlight Artist’s work on a LARGE banner in front of our gallery at 114. Thinking positively towards the future, we have invited these artists to exhibit old and new work IN the gallery next year, 2021.
For more info and purchase of prints and books, contact Karen at Gallery.
Michael Hunold
SHOOT
Through November 1, 2020
Artist Statement:
(see images, pricing and bio below)
I think of [the photographs] as parts of a novel I’m doing.
William Eggleston
Michael Hunold’s photographs are part of his life story. He is employed in the entertainment industry, lighting movies for a living. SHOOT is an ongoing diary of his time in the “factory of dreams”, where ordinary spaces and fabricated simulations of reality are transformed by the alchemy of camera and light into something mysterious and delightful.
Hunold’s preferred camera is a digital ‘point & shoot for its portability and unobtrusive size. It travels easily; it’s with him wherever he goes. This allows for a spontaneous response, in the moment, and for more discrete scrutiny of small details. There is a natural flow of visual energy and creative engagement with the world. For the artist, recording his images is “an enjoyable habit of mind and process of discovery.” The result is images that can be appreciated individually on their own aesthetic terms or as narrative elements in the photo-story he is writing.
Some of the images in this portfolio are from the photo book, SHOOT, which was judged Best-in-Show in Davis Orton Gallery’s Photobook 2014. This exhibit also travelled to the Griffin Museum Of Photography.
Michael Hunold, Back Stage, pigment print, 16×20″, open edition, $400
Michael Hunold, Black Light, pigment print, 16×20″, open edition, $400
Michael Hunold, Bulb Kit, pigment print, 16×20″, open edition, $400
Michael Hunold, Bulb, pigment print, 16×20″, open edition, $400
Michael Hunold, Corridor, pigment print, 16×20″, open edition, $400
Michael Hunold, Eyes, pigment print, 16×20″, open edition, $400
Michael Hunold, Inflatable Crowd, pigment print, 16×20″, open edition, $400
Michael Hunold, Exit, pigment print, 16×20″, open edition, $400
Michael Hunold, Neighbors and Balloon, pigment print, 16×20″, open edition, $400
Michael Hunold, Rabbit, pigment print, 16×20″, open edition, $400
Michael Hunold, Snow, pigment print, 16×20″, open edition, $400
Artist Bio
Michael Hunold, Woodstock NY, has been a photographer since his teens. He was a staff photographer with The Soho Weekly News, The Center for Inter-American Relations, The Museum of Natural History, and a stringer for Time-Life. His photographs have appeared in The Village Voice; New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Woodstock Times, and The Kingston Freeman. His fine art photographs have been exhibited at The Goddard-Riverside Community Center, Davis Orton Gallery, Griffin Museum Of Photography and the Metropolitan Museum Of Art.
Hunold has an MFA from NYU Graduate Film School. He is a member of IATSE Local 52 and the Screen Actors Guild. He has dedicated this exhibit to the memory of photographer Jeff Jacobson (1946-2020).
For more info and purchase of prints and books, contact Karen at Gallery.
Dawn Watson
Message from GRACE:
Imaginings of an Altered World
Through October 11, 2020
Artist Statement:
(see images, pricing and bio below)
As an environmentally conscious artist, Dawn Watson uses photography and artist books to explore our changing environment. She is drawn to the process of both becoming and diminishing—not just in life’s flourishing peak compositions, but in the inevitable process of decomposition.
Orbiting in space, NASA’s GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) mission satellites relayed data that has transformed our analysis of the Earth’s system. These twin satellites are in constant motion. The distance between these partners is measured by microwave sound, signaling gravitational shifts of water and mass.
Watson makes photographs that visually interpret the GRACE data. She creates an alternative based on the potential effects of these seismic shifts, offering an inverted reality that is present but not yet seen. Delicate details or vast landscapes are familiar to us yet strange, holding both beauty and decay, alarm and possibilities.
Dawn Watson, Black Star, August 12, 2015, Lucy Vincent Beach, Chilmark, MA. Along an apparent horizon’s rim, the sun turns to black. Doomsday fiction or a temporary phenomenon subject to the physics of time and space?
Dawn Watson, Ghost Shadows, February 5, 2013, Croton Point, Ossining, NY. Atmospheric changes alter the tone, smell and texture of our most visited surroundings, leaving a world devoid of familiar places.
Dawn Watson, Looming Storm, September 17, 2013, Lake Teedyuskung, Hawley, PA. Heavy in the sky, the clouds hang low and the horizon expands. Forecast of an uncertain future when sky and surface converge.
Dawn Watson, Moment’s Meditation, September 17, 2013, Lake Teedyuskung, Hawley, PA, Stillness in the early hours, unexpected shifts of color, lilies float suspended on the mottled surface. Tethered to a murky bottom, plants meet clouds in a tenuous duet.
Dawn Watson, Blue-veined Leaves, January 3, 2011, Hudson River, Dobbs Ferry, NY. Jewel toned berries tasty to some but the tangled tendrils invade and conquer, blocking light, disfiguring or killing trees with the added weight of snow and ice.
Dawn Watson, Day’s-Eye, May 27, 2014, Aghadoe Heights, Lake of Killarney, Ireland, A flower standing on a single stem, grows from an ancient cemetery wall. With white petals now black, it still turns a watchful eye, waiting for the ritual of pulling petals to ask, “he loves me, loves me not”.
Dawn Watson, Black Sky – Flight of White Birds, August 9, 2014, Punchestown, County Kildare, Ireland. Startled by a change in atmosphere, instinctively a flock of birds take flight, swooping over horses and farmland, searching for safety
Dawn Watson, Glacial Slide, August 12, 2015, Lucy Vincent Beach, Chilmark, MA. Gravity asserts its power, the heavy blue mass stealthily shifts, carving the ground as it covers all in it’s wake, leaving terrain altered beyond recognition
Dawn Watson, New Earth, December 25, 2015, Halsey Pond, Irvington, NY. Global perspectives shift, new data informs how we can respond to this ever-changing, unfamiliar world. Reflect on the reality, the possibility of a new future.
Dawn Watson, Land’s End, March 12, 2017, Cliffs of Kogelburg, False Bay, South Africa. Near the bottom of the world, at the tip of the continent, warm and cool ocean currents converge. Rogue waves and extreme high tides carve away at the rocky coastline, threatening the diversity in the nearby, singular biosphere.
About the prints
Archival ink jet dye sublimation on recycled aluminum
Exhibition Size: 20 in x 30 in
Edition of 8, tiered pricing
Edition #1-3 @ $1,100.00 ($1,400.00 framed)
Also Available: 15 in x 20 in
Archival ink jet dye sublimation on recycled aluminum
Edition of 8, tiered pricing
Edition #1-3 @ $850.00 ($1,050.00 framed)
Artist Bio
Visual artist Dawn Watson, formerly based in NYC as a professional dancer, shifted her artistic practice to photography, finding affinity in the visual storytelling offered by the photographic image. Nature serves as her muse, her subject of concern, a source of solace and healing.
Watson has exhibited her photographs and artist books throughout the United States and Europe. Solo exhibitions include: The Griffin Museum of Photography, the Los Angeles Center for Photography and Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts. Group shows include: the Albrecht-Kemper Museum, A Smith Gallery, Center for Fine Art Photography, dnj Gallery, Davis Orton Gallery, Gallery Valid Foto, LACP Gallery, Tilt Gallery and Tang Teaching Museum. Her work has been featured in Lenscratch and The Hand magazine.
Watson, of Hastings on Hudson, has deep roots in the Hudson Valley. In addition to having lived in Claverack NY for several years, she serves on the board of Scenic Hudson, Inc., a regional environmental group charged with preserving the Hudson River and environs. She holds a BS Honors in Dance from Skidmore College.
For more info and purchase of prints and books, contact Karen at Gallery.
Lydia Rubio
The Fighting Birds
Through September 20, 2020
Artist Statement:
(see images and bio below)
“ I’ve been struck by Rubio’s visual imagination. I can only describe it as cornucopian; and often, because of its depth, as kabbalistic.” Enrico M Santi, Review Magazine
Birds, as symbols of transformation and change, have been present in my work throughout the years. The drawings and etchings of birds in this exhibition compose a somewhat discontinuous narrative that comments on feelings – despair, anguish, admiration and struggle.
Some birds struggle against exterior forces, isolation, migration and change, like in the sailing Birds of Enigma. Some birds wear armors and masks -the Warrior for Peace and the Fighting Bird with Line. An etching tool becomes a spear in the Bird of Rosendale but the Bird of Saint Like holds a pen, a weapon for writing and drawing.
In Cardinal, the eight metal sections shown were designed to build a sculpture for the Raleigh Durham Airport (RDA), eight sections coinciding with the eight letters of its title. The Warrior for Peace, an aluminum sculpture, is constructed the same way with rivetted sections. The Bird of Transformation, an oil on panel shows an upright equilateral triangle, with one point at the top – considered a solar symbol to represent spirit, divinity, fire, life, prosperity and harmony, crows are also symbols of transformation.
DRAWINGS
Admiration, Birds of Feeling, 2007, Ink and graphite on paper, 28″ x 20″ image, $1500, framed in dark wood, 31 x 23 x 1.5″, $1700
Desire, Birds of Feeling, 2007, Ink and graphite on paper, 28″ x 20″ image, $1500, framed in dark wood, 31 x 23 x 1.5″, $1700
Anguish, Birds of Feeling, 2007, Ink and graphite on paper, 28″ x 20″ image, $1500, framed in dark wood, 31 x 23 x 1.5″, $1700
Fighting Bird with Line, 2000, Ink and graphite on cream color paper, 22 x 29.5 inches image,$2300, framed in oak wood, 25.5 x 33 x 2″, $2800
PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
Bird of Transformation, 2020, Oil and gold pigment on panel, 12 x 12 inches, $1600
According to ancient beliefs, an upright equilateral triangle, with one point at the top and two at the base, is a male and solar symbol representing spirit, divinity, fire, life, prosperity and harmony. Crows are symbols of transformation.
Warrior for Peace, 2007, Aluminum sculpture , 40″ x 60″ x 20″ inches, $9000
WATERCOLORS
ENIGMA IS A SERIES OF 6 WATERCOLORS. PRESENTED BELOW ARE A, E & G.
These may be purchased individually or as a set ($11,000)
A of ENIGMA, Room of Migration, 2002, Watercolor on paper, 32 x 24 inches, $2000
E of ENIGMA, Room of Migration, 2002, Watercolor on paper, 32 x 24 inches, $2000
Detail: E of ENIGMA, Room of Migration
G of ENIGMA, Room of Migration, 2002, Watercolor on paper, 32 x 24 inches, $2000
Detail, G of ENIGMA, Room of Migration
PRINT EDITIONS
Bird of Rosendale , 1998, Etching edition of 10, Available 5: 1 PP, 3 AP, 8.75″ x 11.75″ image on 14 x 17 inches paper, $500, 1 available framed in silver, $750
Detail, Bird of Rosendale
Bird of Saint Luke, 2001, Etching, edition of 15, polyptych of 4 prints, Available 5: 2 PP, 2 AP, 1 Four images each 7 x 8 inches, $500. 1 set in 4 individual black frames, $820.
Bird of Saint Luke, 2001, Etching with envelope, edition of 15, polyptych of 4 prints.
Cardinal of RDUA (Raleigh-Durham International Airport) , 2011, Etching edition of 12, Available 10. 20 x 16 inches image on 30.25 x 22.5″ paper. $1300. One available framed in silver, $1600. Cardinal bird can be hand colored in red, see below. artist fee: $300.
Cardinal of RDUA , Cardinal bird can be hand colored in red, 2011, Artist fee: $300.
Artist Bio
Lydia Rubio, based in Hudson NY, is a Cuban born, American multidisciplinary artist. Inspired by literature, music, and art, her paintings, sculptures, public art, and unique artist books include themes of nature, migration and geometry. She often applies systems that connect images, words and numbers.
Rubio has exhibited in national and international museums and galleries including: The Center for Book Arts NY, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Latin American Art CA, Lowe Museum of Art, Frost Art Museum and NSU Art Museum in Florida. Her works are in the collections of Lowe Art Museum, Eskenasi Museum of Art, Wolfsonian FIU, Stanford University, Bryn Mawr College, University of Southern California and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Awards include: The Tree of Life 2020, Ellie’s Creator Award 2019, Pollock Krasner, Cintas Fellowship, State of Florida Individual Artist, Graham Foundation.
Rubio holds a M. Arch from Harvard GSD where she studied with Rudolph Arnheim. She has taught at Harvard, Parsons School of Design and the University of Puerto Rico.
For more info and purchase of prints and books, contact Karen at Gallery.
Artist Spotlight 4
Linda Cassidy
The Sushumna Series
Artist Statement: (see images and bio below)
This ongoing body of work is an invitation.
The Sushumna is said by yogis to be the central channel through which prana (life-force) flows. Ineffable and difficult to perceive, the Sushumna can only be approached tenderly and with infinite curiosity. It retreats in the face of aggression.
Like the Sushumna, these works are as much there as not there. Arising directly from my long-standing yogic practice, they speak to me of breath and breathing.
Printed on glass, they float from the wall and probe the territories between color and light, form and formlessness, being and non-being.
The Sushumna pieces invite the viewer to enter a state of concentrated quietude and dwell for a moment in that magically lit zone, free from ideas of form, edges, assertions or sides; free from the strictures of thought itself.
Linda Cassidy, Sushumna 1, 20”x15” pigment print, offered printed on glass or paper, limited editions, $500.
Linda Cassidy, Sushumna 3, 20”x15” pigment print, offered printed on glass or paper, limited editions, $500.
Linda Cassidy, Sushumna 385, 20”x15” pigment print, offered printed on glass or paper, limited editions, $500.
Linda Cassidy, Sushumna 386, 20”x15” pigment print, offered printed on glass or paper, limited editions, $500.
Linda Cassidy, Sushumna 387, 20”x15” pigment print, offered printed on glass or paper, limited editions, $500.
Linda Cassidy, Sushumna 513, 20”x15” pigment print, offered printed on glass or paper, limited editions, $500.
Linda Cassidy, Sushumna 526, 20”x15” pigment print, offered printed on glass or paper, limited editions, $500.
Linda Cassidy, Sushumna 542, 20”x15” pigment print, offered printed on glass or paper, limited editions, $500.
Linda Cassidy, Sushumna 543, 20”x15” pigment print, offered printed on glass or paper, limited editions, $500.
Linda Cassidy, Sushumna 544, 20”x15” pigment print, offered printed on glass or paper, limited editions, $500.
Linda Cassidy, Sushumna 2827, 20”x15” pigment print, offered printed on glass or paper, limited editions, $500.
Linda Cassidy, Sushumna 2954, 20”x15” pigment print, offered printed on glass or paper, limited editions, $500.
Other sizes available.
Artist Bio
Linda Cassidy is a mixed media artist. A past recipient of the Grumbacher Award, Cassidy’s work has been featured at the Davis Orton Gallery, Averam Gallery, Long Island University; Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton NY; Gallery North, Stony Brook NY and The Atelier, Blue Point NY. Her work is represented in collections in Europe and the US.
She began her lifelong art inquiry at Bard College in the 1970’s were she was strongly influenced by painter Elizabeth Murray, poets George Quasha and Robert Kelly, and composer Ben Boretz. She continued her formal education at Stony Brook University in the early 1980’s, studying and working extensively with sculptor Robert White. During the 1990’s she was a resident artist at the Master’s Workshop at Long Island University in Southampton, NY, allowing her to dialogue with Jack Youngerman, Robert Dash, April Gornick and Ross Bleckner, among many others.
Cassidy currently resides in the Hudson Valley where she continues to work in photo-based mixed media, paint, practice yoga and play with her dogs.
Artist Spotlight 3
Jessica Ann Willis
Quarantine Work
Artist Statement: (see images and bio below)
When self-quarantining began during New York State’s Covid-19 shutdown, I started taking selfies of myself wearing the various masks I put on to venture into the world outside. Quarantine Work is series of photomontages, each with a self-portrait as its base. I build upon the selfie with imagery from a variety of sources including: photos captured on solitary or socially-distanced walks; found images and layered fragments from my substantial digital art folder and images of my laptop which has served, for these recent months, as my primary doorway to human connection and the world beyond my home and studio.
Quarantine Work is about seeing, finding and connecting – activities that take me well beyond form and color. As I pair images of my masked self with collected imagery or mask myself with that imagery, the process becomes one of binding the outside world to me and myself to that outside world. Suggesting their power, I title each work with names of goddesses, female warriors, supernatural figures and water creatures. The resulting images also act as reminders of narratives that I explored through my imagination and play in the isolation of my only-child childhood. The Covid-19-imposed isolation has brought me back to that place in a welcome way.
Jessica Ann Willis, Emergence, Aloja, 2020, Pigment Print, 15″x15”, Edition of 5, $650–From Catalan mythology, an aloja , also known as dona d’aigua, goja or paitida, is a feminine being that lives in places with fresh water. These “water-women” are said to be able to turn into water blackbirds.
Jessica Ann Willis, Masked Penthesilea, 2020, Pigment Print, 15”x15″, Edition of 5, $650
Penthesilea is a Thracian woman warrior. She was an Amazon and daughter of Ares, who comes to help the Trojans. She arrived with twelve other Amazon warriors. After a day of distinguishing herself on the battle-field, Penthesilea confronts Achilles. Achilles kills her, but after taking off her helmet, he falls in love with her.
Jessica Ann Willis, Masked, Moura Ecantada, 2020, Pigment Print, 13”x13″,Edition of 5, $450 — In Catalan mythology an aloja, also known as dona d’aigua, goja or paitida, is a feminine being that lives in places with fresh water. These “water-women” are said to be able to turn into water blackbirds.
Jessica Ann Willis, River Coronation, Pallas, 2020 , Pigment Print, 15”x15″, Edition of 5, $650 –Pallas was the daughter of Triton accidentally killed by Athena her friend while distracted by Zeus.
Jessica Ann Willis, Emergence, Chondrichthyes, 2020, Pigment print, 15”x15″, Edition of 5, $650
Jessica Ann Willis, The World is UPside Down/Iele have Danced, 2020, Pigment Print, 15×15″, Edition of 5, $650
From Romanian mythology, the Iele are said to live in the sky, in forests, caves, isolated mountain cliffs and in marshes. They are seen bathing in the springs or at crossroads. They mostly appear at night by moonlight and dance Horas in secluded areas such as glades, on top fo certain trees (maples and walnut trees specifically), ponds, riversides and even abandoned fireplaces. They carry candles, and dance naked with their desheviled hair partially covering their breasts and bells on their ankles. It is said that after they dance the ground is charred from their dancing.
Jessica Ann Willis, 12. Meditation on my Inner Astronaut, 2020, Pigment Print, 15”x15″, Edition of 5, $650 –Self portrait with photo of streamed arrival of SpaceX Dragon crew on the ISS.
Jessica Ann Willis, Anunit, 2020, Pigment print, 15” x 15”, Edition of 5, $650 — Anunit was a minor Babylonian goddess who was believed to aid women in childbirth. She was later considered to be merely an aspect of Inanna Eventually, this aspect of Inanna became associated with the constellation Pisces.
Jessica Ann Willis, 6. Freyja/Fólkvangr, 2020, Pigment Print, 13”x13″, Edition of 5, $450 –From Norse mythology, Freyja is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, gold, and seiðr. Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, is accompanied by the boar Hildisvíni, and possesses a cloak of falcon feathers. She has a dwelling in the heavens called Fólkvangr where half of those who die in battle go and will find a place at her table in the hall of Sessrumnir. Freyja is sometimes depicted as a valkyrie.
Jessica Ann Willis, Tanit, 2020, Pigment print, 13″x13”, Edition of 5, $450 — Tanit is the great goddess of Carthage and was worshipped there as chief deity. She was a sky goddess who ruled over the sun, stars and moon.
Jessica Ann Willis, Vesna, 2020, Pigment print, 15”X24.75”, Edition of 3, $1000 — Vesna was an early Slavic mythological character embodying youth and springtime (her name is the word for spring in many slavic languages). Related, in Slovene mythology, “vesnas” lived in places atop mountains where they discussed the fate of crops and humans. There was a magical circle around their palaces that kept them from leaving the mountain gop except during February when they would travel in wooden carts down to the valley below. Only certain people could hear them singing.
Jessica Ann Willis, Simurgh, 2020, Pigment Print, 15”x15″, Edition of 5, $650 –Simurgh is a benevolent, mythical bird in Iranian mythology and literature. There is a story where she comes to the aid of Zai, an orphan child she raised as her own. He summons her because he fears his wife will die in childbirth and she shows him how to perform a caesarian section which saves both his wife Rudabah and their son. She is normally depicted as being coppery in color (but I preferred a more raspberry color.)
Artist Bio
Jessica Ann Willis is a mixed, multimedia and installation artist and curator living and working in Hudson, New York. Her work across all media explores the integrated reality of surface, depth, void and apparently inconsistent and incompatible elements. From representational work to distortion or the purely abstract, she plumbs relationships between herself (the artist,) the subject and the viewer.
She has exhibited her work in three solo shows at the Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham NY, over the past decade, most recently, with her project, “Complicities”, 2018. Selected group shows include “Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region,” University Art Museum, SUNY University at Albany; “Monsters in America,” at both International Cryptozoology Museum, Portland ME, and One Mile Gallery, Kingston NY. Curatorial Projects include two exhibitions, “ReCycle, ReCreate, ReImagine” I and II, Omi International Art Center, Ghent NY.
Artist Spotlight 2
Deena Feinberg
Morning Becomes Us
Walking the Hudson River Valley
Artist Statement: (see images and bio below)
I photograph landscapes in the Hudson River Valley that I walk repeatedly in all seasons; I have become intimate with these landscapes—emotionally, psychologically and physically. In my early morning visits, I am particularly drawn to nuances of light including the changing colors and shapes that appear at this time. Shifting my perspective in places I am so familiar with reinforces my appreciation of and connection to this land. As an element of my daily meditation practice, making these images provides a quietness and calm that counterbalances the stories in my mind.
753am_Oct202019, pigment print, 16×20″, edition of 5, $350
731am_May62019, pigment print, 16×20″, edition of 5, $350
637am_July22018, pigment print, 16×20″, edition of 5, $350
637am_June12019, pigment print, 16×20″, edition of 5, $350
716am_May72018, pigment print, 16×20″, edition of 5, $350
726am_June122017, pigment print, 16×20″, edition of 5, $350
717am_Sept42018, pigment print, 16×20″, edition of 5, $350
637am_May102020, pigment print, 16×20″, edition of 5, $350
636am_July162019, pigment print, 16×20″, edition of 5, $350
630am_July32019, pigment print, 16×20″, edition of 5, $350
740am_Apr92019, pigment print, 16×20″, edition of 5, $350
Artist Bio
Deena Feinberg is a photographer living in Rhinebeck, NY. She approaches photography as a medium for her imagination that can stir emotion through an ethereal depiction of the ordinary.
Deena has been a working photographer for the last 25 years in interior design, portraiture, editorial and fine art. She has exhibited her work nationally, including group exhibitions at Davis Orton Gallery (Hudson, NY), PhotoPlace Gallery (Middlebury, VT), The Center for Photography at Woodstock (Woodstock, NY), A Smith Gallery (Johnson City, TX), Wired Gallery (High Falls, NY) Texas Photographic Society Coppell, (TX). Publications include The Wall Street Journal, Hamptons Magazine, Lenscratch, Edible Hudson Valley and Robb Report.
Deena received her BA in Psychology with a minor in Photography from Southampton College, Long Island University. She is certified as a Therapeutic Riding Instructor and Equine Specialist in Mental Health and Learning and currently teaches children and adults with disabilities in Esopus, NY.
For more info and purchase of prints and books, contact Karen at Gallery.
Artist Spotlight 1
Ken Dreyfack
Silent Stages
Hudson River Towns
Artist Statement: Silent Stages (see images and bio below)
I search the streets of towns and cities for dramatic settings. Akin to movie sets and theatrical stages – they become platforms built for narratives. In this selection of images, from Silent Stages, I present Hudson Valley towns.
It was years after I started this project that I realized that the choices I make in my photographs reflect the particularities of my life and sensibility. That’s why I shoot at night; why I make the lighting dramatic; why I print in black and white and why some elements may be so dark or so blurry, they resist resolution. My images give voice to memories of times, places, experiences and feelings I hardly knew remain within me. In this sense, my photographs are relics from a personal archeological dig, my visual memoir. In Silent Stages, I also aim to spark viewers’ imagination, to spur them to conjure up a story, a narrative laced with mystery.
Tanzy’s, Hudson NY, 2019, pigment print, 22″x17″, edition of 8, $650, framed 26″x20″, $850
Finest, Hudson NY, 2019, pigment print, 17×22″, edition of 8, $650, framed 20″x26″, $850
Path to Glory, Kingston NY, 2018, pigment print, 17×22″, edition of 8, $650, framed 20″x26″, $850
Outside In, Woodstock NY, 2016, pigment print, 17×22″, edition of 8, 22″x17″, $750, framed 26″x20″, $950
Smoker & Bridge, Kingston NY, 2018, pigment print, 17×22″, edition of 8, 22″x17″, $650, framed 26″x20″, $850
Governors Tavern, Hudson NY, 2019, pigment print, 22×17″, edition of 8, $650, framed 26″x20″, $850
Rear Entrance, Catskill NY, 2015, pigment print, 17×17″, edition of 8, $750, framed 26″x20″, $950
Sunshine at Night, Kingston NY, 2018, pigment print, 17×22″, edition of 8, $650, framed 20″x26″, $850
Street Lights on Jane Street, Saugerties NY, 2018, pigment print, 17×22″, edition of 8, $650, framed 20″x26″, $850
Tobacco Lane, Red Hook NY, 2019, pigment print, 17×22″, edition of 8, $650, framed 20″x26″, $850
Silent Stages, a Photobook by Ken Dreyfack. Published 2020 by Daylight Books
Silent Stages by Ken Dreyfack. Daylight Books, 2020. Introduction by David A. Ross, former Director, ICA, Boston, Whitney Museum, SFMoMA. 10.5×9.5″, 107 pages, 54 photographs, $45
Artist Bio
A Hudson Valley resident, New Yorker by birth and a Frenchman by naturalization, Ken Dreyfack’s life has been divided between two countries, languages and cultures. As a journalist and commercial writer, Ken worked in the broadcast and print media in New York, Paris and Chicago. He has been engaged in fine art photography for the past decade.
Ken’s photographs have been exhibited in a solo show at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM). Group shows include: the Site:Brooklyn and Foley Gallery in NYC; the Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins CO; Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW); Griffin Museum, Boston; Greg Moon Gallery, Taos NM, and Sohn Gallery in Lenox, MA. Special recognition includes awards from The Photo Review, San Francisco Bay International Photography Competition and Texas Photographic Society.
Ken serves as co-moderator of the ongoing Photographers’ Salon at CPW. Silent Stages, the first monograph of his work, has just been published by publication by Daylight Books.
For more info and purchase of prints and books, contact Karen at Gallery.
To Photographers: Call for Entries Our 6th Annual Group Show, juried by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography will be an ONLINE exhibition and will include a full pdf catalog. Deadline June 22.
2020 Portfolio Showcases: We have postponed our calls for Portfolio Showcases til 2021. Further decisions re calls for entries will be made late summer.
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