Above it All – Tania Retivov: 30 april – 15 May

Solo Photography Exhibit

Westbeth Gallery

Hours:
Thurs – Sunday 1pm – 6pm
212 989 4650 for an appointment.

“Above it All” consists of two major parts – Water Towers in New York City’s urban environment and the mostly pristine (but endangered) waters of Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia and its surroundings. The common thread is water.

As a New York artist/photographer, I found new visual language in observing the water towers above us combined with images of building facades and street life. In the summer of 2005 and 2006, I was lucky to visit Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world, four days from Moscow via the Trans-Siberian Railway. The lake’s beauty and magic cannot be described by words in spite of all the songs, legends and novels dedicated to its uniqueness.

Tania Retivov is a New York artist/photographer. She was born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia. Her parents had fled their native Russia following the 1917 Revolution. Tania grew up in villages and small town where she developed an eye for village life. As a teenager, her family moved to Brussels, and then to NYC. She studied art at Cooper Union in NY and graduated from the Art Institute in Chicago.

Her photographs have been exhibited at the New York Historical Society, Overseas Press Club, NYU, Case Museum and Westbeth. She has also exhibited in Russia at St Petersburg’s Museum of Art and Manege Gallery.

The arts supportive atmosphere of Westbeth where I have lived since 1974 made this exhibit (and many other fine art photo projects) possible.