Artist Reception: December 4, 5 – 7 pm
First Friday: December 3, 6 – 8:30 pm
First Friday: January 7, 6 – 8:30

LGTripp Gallery is pleased to present FOCUS: 3rd Annual Abstract Photography Exhibition. Seven artists express their unique perspective through photography, a wide range of works and styles, aesthetically varied, employing diverse approaches to expose the obscured in the ordinary. They explore the unlimited possibilities of abstracting the subject through the lens, isolating and capturing the pure abstracted essence of their subjects with little to no additional digital manipulation. Immerging imagery renders a fresh visual experience, challenging perception and the imagination.

American abstract photographer and educator Aaron Siskind (1903-1999) wrote in his 1945 essay, “The Drama of Objects”, “Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around to the right. Watch them grow large as you approach, group and regroup themselves as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assume themselves with finality. And that’s your picture.”

JANETTE BRADLEY SMITH: “Along one path, I walk to specific places and photograph – I call them my looking places. They become my medium for seeing the day and thinking the thoughts I need to think. This work represents a seven-year transformation of my path and my self.”

HOWARD BRUNNER: “The City is endlessly inspiring in purely visual, abstract and formal terms. For me, a successful photograph is one that manages to convey, in a print, the magic I felt from the original encounter.”

KEN CUSHMAN: “I use small, highly reflective materials as a means of observing and revealing light. I am attentive to how the materials capture a specific situation and time of day, and the intimate landscapes of shapes and lines they create.”

TIM FITTS: “I like to present the personality of subjects rather than the form itself. This series explores the personality of light contained in a glass…focusing on refraction, reflection, the texture of glass itself, and capturing simultaneously over- and under-exposed images.”

ROSE MACKIEWICZ: “I create tabletop still lifes and tableaus composed from bits of cloth, canvas, wood, cardboard, plastic, glass and junk. Some surfaces are painted, lit with gels, shot through glass or semi-transparent materials.”

BENJAMIN PIERCE: “My work centers around the human figure…subjected to strong abstracting forces. These images take the opposite tack — like Michelangelo, searching forthe figure in the stone.”

DAVID SACKS: “Spectrolite was discovered in 1940 during WWII. In May 2007 I was introduced to these iridescent stones, began importing them from Finland and photographing them. I’m careful not to alter the brilliant colors when printing. Each photograph is an accurate representation of the stone.”

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