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| ARTSEEN Photo-Architecture: Diurnal/Nocturnal Organized by Joseph Masheck by Tomassio Longhi Summer 2003 As one would expect an eccentrically curatorial effort by Joe Masheck is no less an extension of his impassioned interest in modern photography and architecture. Gathered here is a good synthesis of both— a modest, but nifty exhibit of four younger photographers: Norbert Artner, Johanns Wedgerbauer, Tyko Lewis, Toki Ozaki. In encapsulating the grouping of urban buildings in each of their personal responses to the light of day and night times gathering without human presence, except for one silhouette of a diving figure, part of the triptych by Wedgerbauer, which I felt was out of context. What the artists all have in common in their idiosyncratic depiction of light is the incidental, casual and ephemeral stillness— because architecture is a concrete, man-made object— yet unanimously the chosen images resonate a sense of disparity. As Masheck insists that his fascination for twilight is not for its natural effect but for its uncanny unnaturalness, one finds in Artner’s and Wedgerbauer’s pictures of both Austrian and New York sites , however different in their presentations— Artner’s images of a factory tower placed quite frontally in a blurred and tonal surrounding in contrast with Wedgerbauer’s arising building with strange angles— both demonstrate their incisive and formal intelligence of industrial motifs of Post-Modernist awareness of architecture. Toki Ozaki’s cityscapes in the Lower East Side and Tyko Lewis’s Brooklyn Environment evoke a circuitous and subtle intimacy. While Ozaki’s work embraces a strong sense of personal nostalgia and mystery, her marvelous small pictures "Untitled" of constructed of 2 x 4" prop-up or supporting a side of a nearly collapsing building and "Tenth Avenue #5" in which early evening light falls upon this moving car in the foreground. Lewis’s work, on the other hand, captures the moisture of the night and its desolation, especially in "Knickerbocker Avenue" and "Wythe Street." In the end, with all of the robust frontality of forms and by cropping and shooting in daylight, and with all of the glowing variables, the works of Artner and Wedgerbauer do correspond with Ozaki’s and Lewis’s pictorial depth in their interpretations of nighttime. In between, in a few of their pictures, the light is indeterminate, which one could readily yield to the overwhelmingly poetic beauty of twilight. |
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The Rail invites you to a reading with Jason Flores-Williams and Brian Carreira, along with musical guest Steve Strunsky of the Lonesome Prairie Dogs. Thurs., Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m. Vox Pop--Flatbush, Brooklyn www.voxpop.net |
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OFF THE RAIL FALL 2005 at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library - Grand Army Plaza |
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The Independent Press Association-NY recently honored The Brooklyn Rail with the following awards: |