bags, by beth dowi recently visited the jen bekman gallery on 6 spring street in nolita (i guess that's the neighborhood's trendy name) for the obsessive consumption exhibit. it's a tiny space but she packs a punch of art in there. i'm eager to check out the new photography exhibit by beth dow. i love the stark image with puffy white flower-like plastic bags.
(but hurry... it ends next saturday!)
"This photographer's New York début is smartly understated—modest but memorable. Dow's images of woods and fields nod to the landscape tradition reaching from Eugène Atget to Robert Adams, and their quiet beauty is underlined by the richness of her platinum-palladium prints. Dealing with the over familiar subject of man's rude intrusion into the natural world, she's not always subtle—stacked logs and felled limbs abound—but she knows when to step back and allow an image to breathe. Her pictures of a lone tree in a row of stumps and a pile of smoking stubble under a sad gray sky aren't just taken; they're felt."
more info on the artist here. and if you love her work, you can get a small print for only 20 bucks or a medium sized one for 200. see the 20 x 200 buying art blog for details. add some art to your home...
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