NEW YORK, NY, April 20, 2009
/24-7PressRelease/ -- The photographs of Byra Zimmerman, will be on view at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, from April 14 through May 5. (Opening Reception Thursday April 16, from 6 to 8m PM.)
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 6-8 pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11am-6pm
About Byra Zimmerman:
People often say of talented representationalist painters that their works are photorealistic. An inverse of that complement can be deservedly paid to Byra Zimmerman: her photographs seem like paintings. This has nothing to do with digital effects or filters—none of which she employs; rather, it all has to do with her framing choices, the natural light she captures and the way it illumines her subjects. Zimmerman has mastered the ability to bring texture—wood grain, whorls of glass, the lay and fall of fabric—out of the picture, so much so that her images seem possessed of an impossible stillness, seemingly too steady and self-revealing to be "merely" pictures. Her photos seem like paintings because they seem to show us something of the object that we would not see were the object itself literally in front of our eyes.
Byra Zimmerman's love of classic Dutch painters helped shape her approach to photographic imagery. She is based in Virginia, where she has been an award-winner at the Alexandria Festival of the Arts.
About Altered States of Reality:
Altered States of Reality provides a glimpse of the world as captured through the lens of a camera, technology, and through the artists own inner vision. The gifted artist's participating in Altered States of Reality offer us a perception of the world, as seen, through a complex, enigmatic fusion of emotions and technical mastery. The old boundaries have come tumbling down and the new reality has been altered and is forever changing. This exciting exhibition allows us to challenge our ideas, parables and perceptions that constitute our own reality.
Featured Artists: David Agee, Cariappa Annaiah, Apolo Anton Arauz, Marisa Atha, Montserrat Benito Segura, Flemming Hoff, Marilyn Holland, Malka Inbal, Matty Karp, Alain Lacki, Massimiliano Lattanzi, LEFT, Camila Manero, Mary Mansey, Angelina McCormick, Mari Minegishi, Allen Palmer, Beth Parin, Clint Saunders, Sylvia Schwenk, James Spitznagel, Radostina Valchanova, Shelley Vouga, Stefanie Young, Byra Zimmerman
About Agora Gallery
Agora Gallery is a fine art gallery located in the heart of New York City's Chelsea art district that was established in 1984 and is famous for showcasing a spectacular array of talented artists from around the world and around the corner, while providing quality and original art to collectors. The gallery also publishes ARTisSpectrum Magazine, a bi-annual magazine that is distributed to museums, galleries, cultural and art institutions and societies and art schools around the world. It provides artists, collectors, museums, galleries, art organizations and enthusiasts with access to the work of hundreds of internationally talented emerging and mid-level artists as well as feature articles, reviews and interviews and is the sponsor of Art-Mine.com, one of the most comprehensive resources available worldwide to view and purchase fine art from emerging, mid-level and well-established artists.
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