Featuring Natalia Sharymova, Alex AG and Dmitry Kravtsov. Innovative approaches to the art of photography, ranging from traditional to “new”.
Neon 15K: New Photography in the West Village
Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune Street, New York, NY 10014 (between Washington Street and West Street)
July 10 – 24, 2014
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, July 10, 6pm – 8 pm
This exhibition in the heart of the West Village features the rendering by three photographers – Natalia Sharymova, Alex AG and Dmitri Kravtsov – 15,000 volts – of the emotional, the spiritual and the psychological impact of the city .
This exhibition is an examination of life in the city as reflected in the work of three photographers: Natalia Sharymova, Alex AG and Dmitry Kravtsov. The great metropolis has a perpetual, transformative impact on the human psyche; it is the complexity of that impact – the emotional, the spiritual and the psychological impact of life in the city. Each of the contributors experiments with both: the traditional and “new” art of photography.
Each of the three participating artists employs a fundamentally different device: mechanically augmented photography, digital enhancement and digitally altered imagery, yielding a diverse range of style, technique and mood. But their separate artistic concepts merge at the apex of the interaction between the city and its occupants, transforming them either into something more than human beings were meant to be, or into something different altogether.
NATALIA SHARYMOVA
ALEX AG
DMITRY KRAVTSOV
WESTBETH
It is only natural that this exhibition takes place in New York City, the exact locus of metropolitan life. It is equally natural that the particular New York City venue for this exhibition be Westbeth, the artistic housing, the former Bell Laboratories (1868-1966), where the “new technology” was born. The first talking movie, the first condenser microphone, the first TV broadcast and the first binary computer were all conceived.
When brought together in Neon 15K Volts: New Photography in the West Village, the diverse creative methods used by each of these three artists combine to produce rather a startling sensation – a new image.
A resilient jolt.
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