Rosaire Appel, Mark F. Green, and Nicole Lenzi take photographs of light, shadow, and architecture while walking around their urban neighborhoods, leading them rediscover their surroundings each day.
Rosaire Appel, from morning walk series.
Rosaire Appel, from morning walk series.
Rosaire Appel, from morning walk series.
Rosaire Appel, from the morning walk series.
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Rosaire Appel, from the morning walk series.
Mark F. Green
Mark F. Green
Mark F. Green
Mark F. Green
Mark F. Green
Nicole Lenzi, Sight Drawing (Shadows and Shimmer in the City No.15, 3:02 p.m.).
Nicole Lenzi, Sight Drawing (Shadows and Shimmer in the City No 18, 3:07 p.m.)
Nicole Lenzi, Sight Drawing (Shadow and Shimmer in the City No. 20, 3:24 p.m.).
Nicole Lenzi, Sight Drawing, (Shadow and Shimmer in the City No. 23, 3: 32 p.m.)
Rosaire Appel
In the 1990’s,
I took photographs of deliberate light/shadow studio situations and spent a lot
of time in a black and white darkroom. Now I take snapshots on the fly.
Essentially I just walk everywhere. I notice things-anomalies, temporary
situations like light and shadow-when my hand reaches for my iphone I do not
resist. I’m not actively looking for pictures and I’m not making a collection
of images-but pictures happen, and I do have an awful lot of images.
Breif Bio:
I’ve lived in
New York a long time. I write visual books and asemic music and abstract comic
books. Many of these have been published here and internationally, in print and
online. My visual sound drawings have found their way into magazines and have
been exhibited locally.
Mark Green
I am
interested in our relationships with the world around us and the spaces we pass
through and live within. Walking satisfies my need to be outdoors and is
becoming an increasingly important aspect of my practice. I am fascinated by
maps, routes, tracks and boundaries. Some boundaries are marked on maps and
others are determined by where you are standing and how far you can see. Stopping
to notice and appreciate beauty in the ‘every day’ or find significance in the
overlooked or banal informs my decisions about what to take pictures of and
how. For me, photography is the ideal medium for capturing transitory moments
and brief encounters. The relationship between
my sculptural and photographic work is in the way light falls, creating shadows
and reflections. Sunlight in particular is fascinating in this respect as the
direction, intensity and temperature are constantly in flux. My photographs, as
well as a being records of a thing, place or event are pictorial experiments
with the formal elements of composition, tone, colour, texture, shape, space
and line.
Bio
I am an
artist and educator, living and working in the outskirts of Manchester in the
North West of England. Graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University in
1994 with a BA(Hons) in Crafts, my early work was sculptural, using concrete
and mosaic tiles to create pieces for urban renewal projects. Still concerned
with environments, both urban and rural, my work now is mostly photography
based.
Nicole Lenzi
Sight Drawings are observations of "drawings" seen in passing. They may
share formal qualities, like line and shadow, with traditional works or stir
the imagination to for new ones to come. No interventions are made. They are
responses to what could be.
Bio
Nicole Lenzi takes an interdisciplinary approach to
expand the concept of drawing that includes installation, photography, and
works on paper. She maintains a blog on contemporary drawing practices, Expanded.
Lenzi is based in Baltimore, MD, United States.
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