Timothy Briner was recently here for a photography creative residency. He made books! See photos here....
Simulacrum, Signs, and Stacks exhibit EXTENDED for the Williamsburg Gallery Association 2nd Friday Walk and the Northside Festival!
May 14 - June 14
Reception Friday, June 12th from 6-9p
Gallery open Thursday - Sunday, 12-6pm
through June 14th.
My favorite thing is going where I’ve never been.
-Diane Arbus
This is one of my favorite things, too.
Every year, for the last several years, I have been going somewhere new for about a week. Sometimes it’s fairly exotic to me, like Italy, and twice now, it has been to a magical valley not too far from home, and very close to the place I lived for four years in college. Even though it is not far away to go to the Hudson Valley, I am visiting the winding, curving roads that were just shy of places I explored before, places just out of my eyesight. They are right next door, but you don’t see them if you have blinders on....
“…This was back in the 70’s. I was sitting with my dad and his friends in a cloud of blue pot smoke looking at cigarette ads for subliminal messages. That’s how I learned about photography—that there could be a lot of meaning packed into a photographic image, whether it’s real or not.” Thus began “SIGNS and the Language of Photography,” the final installment in Mt. Tremper Arts’s Thursday Night Lecture Series. The above quote is from Tim Davis, who along with Lisa Kereszi and Mathew Pokoik (who curated SIGNS) showed slides of their work and talked about how and why they photograph signs....