Artist Statement
I’m a New Yorker, born and raised. MY NEW YORK is anexhibit focused on moments that have caught my attention due to color, shapes, textures, mood, and relationships.

I am drawn toward opposing textures flushed against one another. Whenthe sun sets, surfaces are brightened with color, and buildings are saturated from its warm glow. I look upand see shapes created by skyscrapers as they converge against the cobalt blue sky. When it rains, the redleaves of autumn are soaked and fall scattering on the wet now reflective pavement.

I invite my viewer, my audience to experience the world as I see it, to feel what I feel, and to find their own personal connection. It is my mission through my work whetherin photography, film, or prose to take people onmy journey and bring knowledge and joy.

Gayle Kirschenbaum is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker whose films and programshave premiered on Netflix, HBO, and Discovery. They includeLook At Us Now,Mother!,A Dog’s Life: A Dogamentary,andJudgement Day.Her last film led to aninvitationto give aTEDx talk called No MoreDrama With Mama about forgiveness. She speaks and teaches on this topic all over including at Omega Institute.

Her photographs have been shown inthe US and abroad ingroup shows and solo exhibitions. Her last solo show STILL MOMENTS was at Westbeth. Most recently her photos have been exhibited at ICP (International Center of Photography) and Carter Burden Gallery andfeatured in Duluth Art Institute, Daily Photograph,andLas Laguna Art Gallery. In Barcelona,her work has been at the Foto Biennale and Pollux Awards.

She has been featured widely in the media includingThe New York Times,NBC’s TodayShow,andWashington Post. She is a member oftheWomen’s Media Group, American Photographers Archive
Group (APAG), Producers Guild of America (PGA),and a judge for the Emmys and PGA Awards.

To learn more please visit GayleKirschenbaum.comandIG@glkirschenbaum