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| "Boston Views" | |
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Works from Sydney Hurwitz & Lance Keimig |
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November 30th, 2007 - January 5th, 2008 |
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Boston Views, an exhibition of images of Boston, some iconic, some more commonplace, all capturing the essence of the most distinguished of all cities in New England, Both printmaker Sidney Hurwitz and photographer Lance Keimig respectively, use Boston as subject matter for this exhibition. Sidney Hurwitz, well known for paying homage to the bygone era of industrial sites, has additionally had a great respect for the built environment of his own city of Boston. Many of the images are of structures no longer in existence, as in Orange Line with it's operator's house, perched on top of the elevated line and Station Stairs. These structures, so quickly disappearing from our cultural landscape, catch the eye of the nationally known artist. Never idealized, but with great respect, Hurwitz's hand-colored etchings with aquatint are a way of preserving their integrity. Sidney Hurwitz has been exhibiting extensively for the past fifty years. His prints are included in such notable collections as the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Library of Congress, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the Boston Public Library, and the Krakow National Museum. Lance Keimig is drawn to photographing at night which imparts a certain mysterious beauty and intrigue of "off-limits" places as well as new and old icons of Boston. As is typical of his new work, Keimig utilizes a variety of existing light sources that range from simple construction lights, to detail lights on structures that give off a sparkle that highlight Boston's old and new infrastructure. "I think of light as the pigment of the nocturnal canvas, with time as its medium. Night photography is the expression of time in a way that we cannot perceive with our own senses. We experience time as a continuous flow, but a night photograph is a representation of time compressed into a single moment". Keimig has been teaching photography at the New England School of Photography, as well as leading workshops in California, Texas, Massachusetts, Ireland, and Scotland. In 2003 he co-founded the Mono Lake Photo Workshops with Christian Waeber to promote interest in the fragile ecosystem of the Eastern Sierra though photography. In 1997 Keimig co-founded The Nocturne Night Photography Workshops with Tim Baskerville, based in San Francisco. He studied photography at San Francisco's Academy of Art College and Calumet Master Photographic Workshops.
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