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Sande Webster Gallery: Divergence Photography Exhibition - Philadelphia Inquirer Review
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Sandy Webster Gallery: Divergence Photography Exhibition - The City Paper Review
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Divergence: Sande Webster Gallery
DIVERGENCE/Sande Webster Gallery
Five Views On Photography | In the main gallery
DATES: July 2 - August 28, 2010
RECEPTION: Friday, July 9, 2010, 6-8pm
LOCATION: 2006 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 - (215) 636-9003
www.sandewebstergallery.com
This summer the Sande Webster Gallery presents Divergence: Five Views on Photography. This exhibition
explores diverse approches to the photographic medium. As the field continually evolves to incorporate digital technologies, artists are finding freedom from traditional processes and new creative opportunities for personal
and aesthetic expression. This contemporary photography exhibition begins a dialog about the current and future state of the printed photographic image. Divergence showcases the work of Krantz, Love, Mitchell, Stein and Tarver.
Gregg Krantz is a Philadelphia artist with a graphic sensibility expressed through a love of printmaking,
photography and design. Krantz’s recent photographic works are abstract narratives that document surfaces and
patterns indicative of particular places. His close-up, detailed photographs capture the texture, color and quality of light in his West Philadelphia neighborhood as well as his travels abroad. Through subject matter and rhythmic phrasing in each series, Krantz heightens one’s perception of the invisible dimension of time. His photographs of
urban facades, geometric forms and painted surfaces are transformed into a personal vocabulary that are arranged
in series, like musical compositions, in varying qualities of tone and harmony.
Arlene Love is an accomplished figurative sculptor turned street photographer. She has been working on an
ongoing photographic project called Walking Distance over the past few years. She doesn’t search for exotic new
places and people to photograph. Her camera goes with her as she goes about her life within walking distance
of her home. The people on the streets of Philadelphia are as interesting to her now as were those in Mexico
where she lived for many years. Nothing is more interesting to Arlene Love than simply watching people – except
photographing them when they are blissfully unaware of her presence. Love has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, and is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
Mitchell rejects the assumption that photography is about representation. Pure abstraction and the process of
image making are the subject of his work. His photographs have more in common with the sensory experiences
associated with color field paintings and ambient sound than they do with the tradition of photography. Images are
shot with the purest of intuition and from a perspective largely influenced by aura occurrences associated with
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Auras can produce heightened abstract emotions, affecting the visual field. Concepts and meanings in words that might invigorate the imagination, or perhaps for the intellect alone are explored in his titles, which enhance the imagery. While the experience with auras, is not always evident in the result, it is irrefutably connected in the process of creation.
Phil Stein creates dimensional photographic collages of the urban landscape. He finds inspiration in the random visual fragmentation that occasionally occurs in live streams and video downloads. The Streets series explores various themes of image reconstruction based on these common algorithmic accidents. Digital processes are used with a variety of fine papers to create this body of photo-based work. The resulting artwork is a combination of photograph, collage and sculpture. The world through Stein’s digital lens is made up of bits of visual information. He creates a new way of seeing the world around us, defining what it means to be an artist in the digital age.
Ron Tarver began his recent series of ethereal black and white flower portraits as a journey through his own
backyard. Beginning the first day of the season, Tarver set out to document the spring flowers of the Northeast,
beginning with crocuses then on to the next blooms, such as magnolia and tulips. Tarver captures the beauty of
nature in such intimate detail. There is a sensuality to these images that is revealed in the graceful curves of each
petal. Tarver is a master at his craft and presents sumptuous images that remind us how incredible our natural
world truly is. Tarver, a 2001 Pew Fellow, is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oklahoma Museum of History and the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
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