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Item Ships From: Tri-State Area
Kroma: Morpho Godarti Lachaumei-M
Located in New York, NY
This image is from the series "Kroma". Pascal Goet looks for flowers, butterflies and other insect of items from the microworlds to attract our attention to the beauty of nature.
P...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Color, Dye Transfer
Kroma: Inachis Io
Located in New York, NY
This image is from the series "Kroma". Pascal Goet looks for flowers, butterflies and other insect of items from the microworlds to attract our attention to the beauty of nature.
P...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Color, Dye Transfer
Kroma: Thecla Coronata-M
Located in New York, NY
This image is from the series "Kroma". Pascal Goet looks for flowers, butterflies and other insect of items from the microworlds to attract our attention to the beauty of nature.
P...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Color, Dye Transfer
Poppy I
Located in New York, NY
Limited edition, signed and numbered with certificate of authenticity - 60x60cm - 15 proofs + 4 AP
About the Artist:
Pascal Goet, a French artist and phot...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Board, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment
$2,200
Business
By Max-Steven Grossman
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Edition of 5 + 2AP
After graduating from the University of Philadelphia with an engineering degree, Grossman soon discovered his passion for photography. In 2000, he graduated from...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
Untitled #5, Guild Hall
By Laura Letinsky
Located in New York, NY
Laura Letinsky
Untitled #5, Guild Hall, 2013
Archival pigment print
Edition of 7
Image: 48 x 37 1/2 inches
Paper: 58 x 48 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled #2, Guild Hall
By Laura Letinsky
Located in New York, NY
Laura Letinsky
Untitled #2, Guild Hall, 2013
Archival pigment print
Edition of 7
Image: 47 5/8 x 37 3/8 inches
Paper: 57 5/8 x 48 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Space I
By Max-Steven Grossman
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Edition of 5 + 2AP
After graduating from the University of Philadelphia with an engineering degree, Grossman soon discovered his passion for photography. In 2000, he graduated from...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
Color Chart, Conceptual Art Color Photograph by Anne Turyn
By Anne Turyn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Anne Turyn, American (1954 - )
Title: Color Chart
Year: 1982
Medium: Photograph
Size: 16 x 20 in. (40.64 x 50.8 cm)
Frame Size: 27.5 x 32 inches
Category
1980s Post-Modern Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Iris Atropurpea D01
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Fragile Land
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fern
Wildflowers
By Joyce Tenneson
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 4/5, archival pigment print on handmade Japanese Awagami paper. Includes white frame.
"Fern & Wildflowers" is from Joyce Tenneson's Radiant Beings series from 2021 which emphas...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cyclamen P02
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Fragile Land
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Individually framed Alphabet Suite, Edition 3/10, hand signed and numbered.
By Igor Vishnyakov
Located in New York, NY
Igor Vishnyakof limited edition (3/10) individually framed hand gold glazed sepia photographs.
All pieces are hand signed and numbered by the artist.
This installation was featured...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Cyclamen P03
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Fragile Land
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rock VWB
By Max-Steven Grossman
Located in Boca Raton, FL
After graduating from the University of Philadelphia with an engineering degree, Grossman soon discovered his passion for photography. In 2000, he graduated from NYU and the Interna...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
Sno6-016 (sno blanket)
Located in New York, NY
Doug and Mike Starn
Sno6-016 (sno blanket), 2006-07
Archival inkjet print on Gampi paper with varnish and acrylic paint
32.5 x 25 inches (sheet)
40 x 32 inc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Varnish, Acrylic, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Dark Sun No. 58
Located in New York, NY
For the past 30 years Barbara Jaffe has used her 4x5 inch view camera and a variety of black & white and expired pos/neg Polaroid films to create photographs that are a tribute to th...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lilium Candidum P03
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Fragile Land
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lilium Candidum P01
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Fragile Land
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bunny Lambert Mellon’s gardens, Upperville, Virginia, 1 June 2010
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
At Oak Spring Farm, Bunny Lambert Mellon's Gardens, Upperville, Virginia, 1 June 2010
Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
28" x 28.5" Ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$6,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Arrogant and aloft, 2019
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for framing. UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through March 1st, 2020. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available after...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dark Sun No. 9
Located in New York, NY
For the past 30 years Barbara Jaffe has used her 4x5 inch view camera and a variety of black & white and expired pos/neg Polaroid films to create photographs that are a tribute to th...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cyclamen P05
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Fragile Land
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Like Ice in the Clouds (Japan) No. 129
By Simone Rosenbauer
Located in New York, NY
15 x 15 archival pigment print, framed, edition 8.
Signed, titled, dated and editioned on frame label provided.
In this latest body of work, Simone Rosenbauer continues her series "...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Like Ice in the Clouds (Japan) No. 83
By Simone Rosenbauer
Located in New York, NY
15 x 15 archival pigment print, framed, edition 8.
Signed, titled, dated and editioned on frame label provided.
In this latest body of work, Simone Rosenbauer continues her series "...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Iris Atropurpea 04B P
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Fragile Land
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Imbalances
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Falling Bird
Category
Early 2000s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$24,000
Drown
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Falling Bird
Category
Early 2000s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$18,000
Like Ice in the Clouds (Japan) No. 106
By Simone Rosenbauer
Located in New York, NY
15 x 15 archival pigment print, framed, edition 8.
Signed, titled, dated and editioned on frame label provided.
In this latest body of work, Simone Rosenbauer continues her series "...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Like Ice in the Clouds (Japan) No. 97
By Simone Rosenbauer
Located in New York, NY
15 x 15 archival pigment print, framed, edition 8.
Signed, titled, dated and editioned on frame label provided.
In this latest body of work, Simone Rosenbauer continues her series "...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cyclamen D01
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Fragile Land
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$18,000
Cyclamen P04
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Fragile Land
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lilium Candidum P04
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Fragile Land
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lilium Candidum D02
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Fragile Land
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Iris Atropurpea 03W P
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Fragile Land
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cyclamen D03
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Fragile Land
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$18,000
Bed - Dream Santa Fe, New Mexico, Frame included
By Robert Stivers
Located in Hudson, NY
Price for UNFRAMED item
The Robin Rice Gallery proudly announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2018, an annual photography exhibit featuring gallery artists as well as a few newcomers. This year...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
And The Soul Wanted To Move
By Benjamin Heller
Located in Hudson, NY
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through February 26th, 2017. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available then. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rivers Echo, Kentucky, 2011
By Benjamin Heller
Located in Hudson, NY
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through February 26th, 2017. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available then. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Blue Roses
By Mark
Kristen Sink
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT:
For the last two years Mark and Kristen have collaborated using one of the earliest photographic methods, collodion wet plate to create ambrotypes on glass and tintypes on aluminum. They use a 1860 style view camera to create one-of-a-kind images, which become windows into an intimate, romantic, and beautiful world of faces, still lives, nudes, and landscapes. In this demanding process, the collodion coated tin or glass plates are immersed in a silver nitrate solution, and then they must be exposed in the camera and developed while still wet. Serendipitous flaws and beautiful imperfections are an inevitable part of this imprecise hands-on process.
This show includes a combination of 24 tintypes and ambrotypes, which are 8x10 and smaller in size. Their intimate sizes ask the viewers to look closer and spend more time with these photographs to fully appreciate their power. — A welcome antidote to today's nonstop, ¬instantaneous imagery. Paradoxically, this intersection of past and present gives these pieces an unmistakably contemporary feel. The two collaborators deliberately play up the ambiguity of time.
The nudes (some recalling E.J. Bellocq's alluring portraits of New Orleans prostitutes in 1912) are suffused with freshness and sensuality, even eroticism at times, with nearly all of them coming off as refined rather than crass.
Fredrick Scott...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lotus Fire #12
By Kim Reierson
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and white, Still life, Flower, Botanical, Rose, Abstract, flower, still life, photograph, black and white photograph, abstraction, b&w
All the photographs in a limited edition. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.”
ABOUT
In 2008, Andrew Arrick and Michael Hofeman first came across The Robin Rice Gallery and immediately fell in love with the fine art photography becoming fans and collectors of the work.
On a visit to the gallery this past winter, Michael and Andrew had a brilliant idea to join forces with Robin to curate an exhibition in tune with the aesthetic of their vintage lifestyle boutique, FINCH hudson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Residence, Snowstorm, New Jersey
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Scary Baby
By Ted Adams
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
Ted Adams’ first solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery juxtaposes surrealism with the documentary art form. What differentiates Mr. Adams’ work from traditional photojournalism is his keen eye for capturing the irony in the events that unfold before our eyes. It is the found objects in everyday life to which Adams is most attuned. He creates a subtle mood and visual mystery that conveys meaning not only from the image itself but also through imagining what exists just beyond the frame.
"I see photography as a way of cropping the world—selectively taking things out of context—which often results in stripping the meaning out of the original subject matter, or at least making the image open to interpretation. It’s the opposite of traditional photojournalism whose intention is to create ‘narrative’ and context rather than discard them."
While he has exhibited artistic photography in a variety of genres, in the past five years he turned his artistic eye inward to reflect a more autobiographical tone. While some people compare his work to that of Robert Frank, Adams finds himself more and more influenced by Larry Clark whose career was built on pictures drawn from his own life and drug-addled friends rather than a specific documentary mission.
The unique presentation of this collection of twenty-three silver gelatin prints enhances the voyeuristic sensibility of Mr. Adams’ work. Each photograph is jewel box in size, measuring 4" x 6" to invite the viewer in to make an intimate appraisal. The craftsmanship of the wide, dark wood frames hearkens back to late 19th-century Shaker design—yet the aesthetic is boldly contemporary, providing a strong backdrop to draw the viewer’s gaze directly to the subject matter.
This artisanship extends to the printing where Adams exhibits his skills in traditional darkroom processes. He shoots mostly with Leica and Nikon 35mm film cameras...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Phone Bank
By Ted Adams
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
Ted Adams’ first solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery juxtaposes surrealism with the documentary art form. What differentiates Mr. Adams’ work from traditional photojournalism is his keen eye for capturing the irony in the events that unfold before our eyes. It is the found objects in everyday life to which Adams is most attuned. He creates a subtle mood and visual mystery that conveys meaning not only from the image itself but also through imagining what exists just beyond the frame.
"I see photography as a way of cropping the world—selectively taking things out of context—which often results in stripping the meaning out of the original subject matter, or at least making the image open to interpretation. It’s the opposite of traditional photojournalism whose intention is to create ‘narrative’ and context rather than discard them."
While he has exhibited artistic photography in a variety of genres, in the past five years he turned his artistic eye inward to reflect a more autobiographical tone. While some people compare his work to that of Robert Frank, Adams finds himself more and more influenced by Larry Clark whose career was built on pictures drawn from his own life and drug-addled friends rather than a specific documentary mission.
The unique presentation of this collection of twenty-three silver gelatin prints enhances the voyeuristic sensibility of Mr. Adams’ work. Each photograph is jewel box in size, measuring 4" x 6" to invite the viewer in to make an intimate appraisal. The craftsmanship of the wide, dark wood frames hearkens back to late 19th-century Shaker design—yet the aesthetic is boldly contemporary, providing a strong backdrop to draw the viewer’s gaze directly to the subject matter.
This artisanship extends to the printing where Adams exhibits his skills in traditional darkroom processes. He shoots mostly with Leica and Nikon 35mm film cameras...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"To Coastal Walk", Little Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Devon, UK, 2010
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Chelsea, NYC, April 2004", New York, 2004
By Thomas Michael Alleman
Located in Hudson, NY
By focusing on pattern instead of the specific object, Alleman brings new life to the commonplace street vendor coffee cup.
Thomas Alleman’s urban landscapes convey the pulsating e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"So We Balance Ourselves", New York, 2009
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
As if developed from memory, West’s latest collection channels imagery from a familiar past life. Just as the DaDa artists utilized art objects in unconventional forms produced by u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Firstgiving", New York, 2010
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
As if developed from memory, West’s latest collection channels imagery from a familiar past life. Just as the DaDa artists utilized art objects in unconventional forms produced by u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Cityscape", New York, 2010
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
As if developed from memory, West’s latest collection channels imagery from a familiar past life. Just as the DaDa artists utilized art objects in unconventional forms produced by u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Hope Is a Waking Dream, New York", 2009
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
As if developed from memory, West’s latest collection channels imagery from a familiar past life. Just as the DaDa artists utilized art objects in unconventional forms produced by un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Minutes", New York, 2009
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
As if developed from memory, West’s latest collection channels imagery from a familiar past life. Just as the DaDa artists utilized art objects in unconventional forms produced by u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Running Lights", New York, 2010
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
As if developed from memory, West’s latest collection channels imagery from a familiar past life. Just as the DaDa artists utilized art objects in unconventional forms produced by un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"No. 2", New York, 2007
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
As if developed from memory, West’s latest collection channels imagery from a familiar past life. Just as the DaDa artists utilized art objects in unconventional forms produced by u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Counteracting Gravity by Gentle Movement", New York 2007
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
As if developed from memory, West’s latest collection channels imagery from a familiar past life. Just as the DaDa artists utilized art objects in unconventional forms produced by u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Mainspring", New York, 2007
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
As if developed from memory, West’s latest collection channels imagery from a familiar past life. Just as the DaDa artists utilized art objects in unconventional forms produced by un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Joshua Rocks
By Ron Hamad
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Price and size range (Custom mural sizes available). All the photographs are in a limited edition.
Edition 1 of 15.
If the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Light Flower
By Ron Hamad
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Price and size range (Custom mural sizes available). All the photographs are in a limited edition.
Edition 1 of 15.
Price ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
"Knotted Wire Brush", 2010
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexposure and one-hundred-forty-character bursts of communication that seem to define our era. Gittler is no luddite, he loves his iPhone. But these images, often obscuring the objects beyond identification, take unsentimental pleasure in elements of weight, ground, volume and permanence that are more closely associated with a bygone heyday of industrialization.
These photographs are about a tangible physical experience, about moving parts. Gittler’s expert printing-his ability to see the potential in a frame and employ the techniques necessary to articulate that vision on paper-brings the work to life. There’s wit in the brand iconography and a documentary component, but Gittler resists prescribing interpretations, saying subtext isn’t the point. His use of extremely shallow depth of field, intense contrast and exploded grain is muscular and poetic. But subtext is relevant.
Although Robin Rice first approached Ian Gittler about his vector-based art on photo paper, the gallerist challenged him to create a series of photographs with that kind of machismo. As a native New Yorker who was marched through the halls of MOMA as a toddler, Gittler’s inspiration-his idea of macho-has less to do with cowboys and racecar drivers than with Franz Kline brushstrokes and modernist design. For Gittler, macho means the maximum amount of black ink that can lie across a sheet of photo paper. That kind of force. He narrowed his field of view for this series-often to a centimeter or two-in order to achieve a purely visual, visceral response.
Gittler titled the work Motor Art in tribute to the 1934 Museum of Modern Art exhibit, Machine Art. Upon its sixtieth anniversary, Phillip Johnson wrote of the show (and of his own essay for its original opening), “The thrust was clear: anti-handicraft, industrial methods alone satisfied our age; Platonic dreams of perfection were the ideal.”
Ian Gittler photographs, draws, writes, and makes music. He has created album covers for Willie Nelson, Roy Hargrove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
"Pressure Gauge", 2007
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexposure and one-hundred-forty-character bursts of communication that seem to define our era. Gittler is no luddite, he loves his iPhone. But these images, often obscuring the objects beyond identification, take unsentimental pleasure in elements of weight, ground, volume and permanence that are more closely associated with a bygone heyday of industrialization.
These photographs are about a tangible physical experience, about moving parts. Gittler’s expert printing-his ability to see the potential in a frame and employ the techniques necessary to articulate that vision on paper-brings the work to life.
There’s wit in the brand iconography and a documentary component, but Gittler resists prescribing interpretations, saying subtext isn’t the point. His use of extremely shallow depth of field, intense contrast and exploded grain is muscular and poetic. But subtext is relevant.
Although Robin Rice first approached Ian Gittler about his vector-based art on photo paper, the gallerist challenged him to create a series of photographs with that kind of machismo. As a native New Yorker who was marched through the halls of MOMA as a toddler, Gittler’s inspiration-his idea of macho-has less to do with cowboys and racecar drivers than with Franz Kline brushstrokes and modernist design. For Gittler, macho means the maximum amount of black ink that can lie across a sheet of photo paper. That kind of force. He narrowed his field of view for this series-often to a centimeter or two-in order to achieve a purely visual, visceral response.
Gittler titled the work Motor Art in tribute to the 1934 Museum of Modern Art exhibit, Machine Art. Upon its sixtieth anniversary, Phillip Johnson wrote of the show (and of his own essay for its original opening), “The thrust was clear: anti-handicraft, industrial methods alone satisfied our age; Platonic dreams of perfection were the ideal.”
Ian Gittler photographs, draws, writes, and makes music. He has created album covers for Willie Nelson, Roy Hargrove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
"Cummins Steam Pump", 2007
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexposure and one-hundred-forty-character bursts of communication that seem to define our era. Gittler is no luddite, he loves his iPhone. But these images, often obscuring the objects beyond identification, take unsentimental pleasure in elements of weight, ground, volume and permanence that are more closely associated with a bygone heyday of industrialization.
These photographs are about a tangible physical experience, about moving parts. Gittler’s expert printing-his ability to see the potential in a frame and employ the techniques necessary to articulate that vision on paper-brings the work to life.
There’s wit in the brand iconography and a documentary component, but Gittler resists prescribing interpretations, saying subtext isn’t the point. His use of extremely shallow depth of field, intense contrast and exploded grain is muscular and poetic. But subtext is relevant.
Although Robin Rice first approached Ian Gittler about his vector-based art on photo paper, the gallerist challenged him to create a series of photographs with that kind of machismo. As a native New Yorker who was marched through the halls of MOMA as a toddler, Gittler’s inspiration-his idea of macho-has less to do with cowboys and racecar drivers than with Franz Kline brushstrokes and modernist design. For Gittler, macho means the maximum amount of black ink that can lie across a sheet of photo paper. That kind of force. He narrowed his field of view for this series-often to a centimeter or two-in order to achieve a purely visual, visceral response.
Gittler titled the work Motor Art in tribute to the 1934 Museum of Modern Art exhibit, Machine Art. Upon its sixtieth anniversary, Phillip Johnson wrote of the show (and of his own essay for its original opening), “The thrust was clear: anti-handicraft, industrial methods alone satisfied our age; Platonic dreams of perfection were the ideal.”
Ian Gittler photographs, draws, writes, and makes music. He has created album covers for Willie Nelson, Roy Hargrove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
