FIRE AND ICE Opening at CEPA
Saturday 21st Nov, 2015
CEPA Gallery
617 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14203
Time: 7:00-10:00pm
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FIRE AND ICE is a collaborative exhibition by renowned astral photographer Alan Friedman and photomicographer Douglas Levere. For this exhibition Friedman’s telescopic photographs of the Sun’s surface, which reveal it’s undulating, almost painterly topography, have been paired with Levere’s microscopic studies of snowflakes, exposing the hidden architecture of these tiny and delicate natural wonders.
While at first a seemingly obvious contrast, there is juxtaposition of vision that occurs through their respective practices — Friedman’s Suns become almost cellular and Levere’s snowflakes inherit the stature of skyscrapers. Both seemingly solid structures are, in actuality, held together by the most delicate balance of physical law. Through large-scale photographic prints, this massive astral body and these diminutive structures become equalized.
Friedman and Levere note:
The volume of the earth could hold more than 50 octillion (50,000,000,000,000,000,00
Through the use of telephoto lenses to get closer and filters to temper brightness our photographs permit the viewer to experience what is invisible in day to day life. The details of our subjects are rendered with accuracy – color and composition are selected to better express structure and to impart emotion. Through our collaboration and the juxtaposition of scale and form we hope to illuminate some of the drama and poetry that is found in the natural world around us.
Please join us on SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2015 from 7:00-10:00pm at CEPA Gallery for an opening reception with the artists.
Exhibition runs through January 2, 2016 and is located in the FLUX and PASSAGEWAY Gallery spaces on the first and second floor.
While at first a seemingly obvious contrast, there is juxtaposition of vision that occurs through their respective practices — Friedman’s Suns become almost cellular and Levere’s snowflakes inherit the stature of skyscrapers. Both seemingly solid structures are, in actuality, held together by the most delicate balance of physical law. Through large-scale photographic prints, this massive astral body and these diminutive structures become equalized.
Friedman and Levere note:
The volume of the earth could hold more than 50 octillion (50,000,000,000,000,000,00
Through the use of telephoto lenses to get closer and filters to temper brightness our photographs permit the viewer to experience what is invisible in day to day life. The details of our subjects are rendered with accuracy – color and composition are selected to better express structure and to impart emotion. Through our collaboration and the juxtaposition of scale and form we hope to illuminate some of the drama and poetry that is found in the natural world around us.
Please join us on SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2015 from 7:00-10:00pm at CEPA Gallery for an opening reception with the artists.
Exhibition runs through January 2, 2016 and is located in the FLUX and PASSAGEWAY Gallery spaces on the first and second floor.
