Palm Beach Photographic Centre
Announces Three Upcoming Exhibitions
(West Palm Beach, FL – March 4, 2011) Fatima NeJame, president and chief executive officer of the world renowned Palm Beach Photographic Centre (PBPC), today announced the upcoming opening of three new exhibitions:
In Good Hands:
Selected Artwork from the
Henry M. Buhl Hand Collection
Exhibition Dates: March 12-30, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 12, 6 to 8 p.m.
In October 1993, Henry M. Buhl purchased a photograph by Alfred Stieglltz of Georgia O’Keeffe’s hands. This photograph would come to be the cornerstone of a private collection that now includes over 1,000 images by the medium’s foremost practitioners as well as little-known and emerging artists. Focusing on the theme of the hand, Buhl has gathered images spanning the history of photography from a photogenic drawing negative made in 1840 by William Henry Fox Talbot to serial Polaroids made in 2002 by Cornelia Parker. The collection also encompasses a comprehensive range of photographic practices, including scientific, journalistic, and fine-art photography, with a strong component of contemporary art. The Buhl Collection was first exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum of New York in the summer of 2004, and has since been displayed in major museums around the world.
Overtones:
Diptychs and Proportions
by Ralph Gibson
Exhibition Dates: April 2 to May 14, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 6 to 8 p.m.
Ralph Gibson’s images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through contextualization and surreal juxtaposition. The artist has maintained a lifelong fascination with books and book-making. Since the appearance in 1970 of The Sonambulist, he has produced over 40 monographs, and his photographs are included in more than 150 museum collections around the world, and have appeared in hundreds of exhibition.
Overtones reveal his personal thoughts about the role of his images on the page and how they converse with one another. Gibson’s theory is that enhanced impression experienced by the viewer is a result of the two images that produce it. With this in mind Gibson has sought out pairings of his photographs that conform to the rules of visual scale and photographic tonality. The diptychs are autonomous works so that the viewer plays an important role in the function of the work, bringing to each diptych his or her own personal interpretation.
Project Tandem:
Two Bicycles, Two Photographers, One 11,000-Mile Ride
by Morrigan McCarthy & Alan Winslow
Exhibition Dates: May 19 to June 18
Opening Reception May 19, 6 to 8 p.m.
Morrigan McCarthy & Alan Winslow completed a one-year, 11,000-mile bicycle ride around the United States in 2009. Project Tandem is the multimedia result of that journey’s goal: to photograph and interview everyday Americans about their views on the environment. They rode from Rockland, ME to St. Augustine, FL to San Diego, CA to Seattle, WA and zig-zagged their way back to New York through the American Midwest. McCarthy and Winslow rode through 30 states photographing and interviewing people they met along the way, camping at night and gaining a great appreciation for the kindness of strangers.
Bicycling allowed the two men to immerse themselves in the subcultures and communities through which they passed so they could better understand the way the rest of America felt about climate change and the environment. After interviewing and photographing hundreds of people all around the country, they have put together a show of portraits and a looping audio track of voices from all over America speaking candidly about the environment. The show illuminates the differences in opinion between regions and individuals, but it also somehow seems to bring us all together.
About the Palm Beach Photographic Centre:
The Photo Centre is located at the downtown City Center municipal complex at 415 Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach. Hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday – Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, please call 561.253.2600 or visit www.workshop.org or www.fotofusion.org.
AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW:
Fatima NeJame
Palm Beach Photographic Centre
561.253.2600
For Photos:
To download accompanying images for these exhibitions, go to the Palm Beach Photographic Center’s online pressroom at http://pressroom.workshop.org
MEDIA CONTACT:
Gary Schweikhart
PR-BS, Inc.
561.756.4298