LESLIE JEAN-BART : Memories of Childhood

 

'The Pull from The Sea'

© Leslie Jean-Bart 2018
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'Strolling' and 'Contrasting Views'

© Leslie Jean-Bart 2018

"The sea is magical to me. That is something I became aware of at an extremely early age when my older brother and I started to swim in the ocean where, during the summer in Haiti, we would spend countless hours of absolute delight. These memories have nourished and sustained me somehow. By the sea I can regain my balance, by the sea I can think clearer, by the sea I can create, and by the sea I can be a child again without care what others may think." – Leslie Jean-Bart

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One of my favorite photographers, Leslie Jean-Bart, is featured in the "Portfolio Showcase" exhibition ‘Memories of Childhood’ at Davis Orton Gallery. Also showing are Michal Greenboim,  Kev Filmore and Flynn Larsen. Opening Celebration and Artist Talk Saturday April 7th from 5-7pm.

‘Memories of Childhood’

 Michal Greenboim and Kev Filmore

 Leslie Jean-Bart and Flynn Larsen

April 7th - May 6th, 2018

Davis Orton Gallery

Hudson, NY

ROBIN CRACKNELL: Childhood at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery

alovebigas, 2010

© Robin Cracknell/Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York

 ju dou, 2013

© Robin Cracknell/Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York

acid summer, 2010

 © Robin Cracknell/Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York

Born in India and raised in America, Robin Cracknell moved to London in 1987, where he began collecting discarded film cuttings from the projection booth of the Institute of Contemporary Arts London. In his series Childhood, single father Cracknell offers a stylized, personal vision of childhood through the world of his only son Jake. He explores themes of love, loss and memory using a unique non-digital process combining traditional film photography and cinematography, and shooting with old, sometimes damaged cameras and salvaged 35mm cine film. Artist reception March 10, 6-8pm.

ROBIN CRACKNELL :  CHILDHOOD

March 10 - April 30, 2016

SOUS LES ETOILES GALLERY
560 Broadway #603 New York City

TOM CHAMBERS: Dreaming In Reverse / Soñando Hacia Atrás

Presumptuous Guests / Invitados Presuntuosos
Photograph (c) Tom Chambers

Two Chairs / Dos Sillas
Photograph (c) Tom Chambers

Stuck In The Key Of C / Atrapado en la Tecla de C
Photograph (c) Tom Chambers

Glass Flower / Flor de Vidrio Photograph (c) Tom Chambers

"Twenty-five years ago I traveled freely throughout the Mexican countryside where I relished a warm, welcoming, and slow-paced style of living. I was heartened by the physical beauty of the landscape and the simple, pure lifestyles shared by both the Hispanic and indigenous people of Mexico. A sense of spirituality and magic were imbedded in their religious practices, crafts, art, dance, and literature...Sensing that little time remains to photograph the beauty of Mexico, I have created the series, Dreaming In Reverse, to express both my concern for cultural loss, as well as my appreciation for the inherent loveliness of Mexican life. Employing Magic Realism, an art genre used in the early twentieth century in Mexico, I have attempted to create images of Mexico which seem true and believable, but also perhaps improbable."– Photographer Tom Chambers

photo-eye Editions just released a portfolio of twelve pigment ink prints from this series, Dreaming In Reverse, housed in an archival anodized aluminum box is published in a limited edition of thirty with two artist’s and two printer’s proofs. The prints were produced with archival pigment inks printed on hahnemühle photo rag baryta.

Dreaming In Reverse / Soñando Hacia Atrás
Photographs by Tom Chambers
August 5 - September 25
photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe

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Also on View
Aline Smithson: In Case of Rain

States Puzzle
Photograph (c) Aline Smithson

"We live in a world full of technical distractions. I see my children gathered around their computers as though it’s a summer campfire, faces aglow, as they peer into a world of friends and fantasy, participating in a new forms of entertainment that further remove them from the childhood that I experienced...

...And it’s because of this that I have been looking at bookshelves and untouched childhood pursuits with a new eye. With great sadness, I realize that these objects will someday be obsolete, at least in their current incarnations. And like a curator of antiquities, I see them now as beautiful objects to be admired and preserved, if only on film."—Aline Smithson

Aline Smithson: In Case of Rain
photo-eye Photographer's Showcase

Aline's PDN September 2011 Cover!