RHV Fine Art

Sky Above
Tracy Lane, Photography and Joel Adas, Painting

March 1 – March 29, 2009

Urban life is full of frenetic episodes, fast paced exchanges and enclosed spaces. Sky Above seeks to explore moments of quotidian escape, split second glimpses and serendipitous events of quiet contemplation taken in the midst of fast paced urban existences. Throughout human history looking skyward has been a source of fascination, whether it is daydreaming or spiritual inspiration. This exhibition pairs the photographs of New York City native Tracy Lane and Brooklyn based painter Joel Adas. Though firmly rooted in the American landscape tradition Sky Above endeavors to explore a dialogue of sensibilities, light, color, experiences and time that is unique to the daily experiences of these two people.

Tracy Lane seeks beauty in the mundane. She looks for “a moment, when vision transports the viewer.” This selection of images is taken from her 10-year visual diary of images photographed out of the east and west facing windows of her Brooklyn apartment and from windows of airplanes. Lane’s morning and evening photographs, taken randomly when she is compelled to, record her fascination with the sky and evidence fleeting glimpses of experience. Her photographs of clouds and sky shot from the windows of airplanes document her movement through time and space. If it were not for the wing of the airplane, which takes on an architectural, even totemic quality, they would evoke a groundless dream-space. Ms. Lane studied at Bard College and her photographs have appeared in numerous periodicals including, Elle Décor, Town and Country, Oprah magazine, Zink Magazine, Dwell, Martha Stewart and the New York Times Magazine.

For Joel Adas his constant fascination for looking up results in his “skyscapes” based on the artist’s snapshots or memories. He writes, “My goal is to make the images evocative and strangely familiar, suggesting a larger picture or context…” Framed by the naked limbs of trees in winter, distant horizons or slivers of buildings Adas’s compositions are quick “sketches” taken en route.  Adas’s work is a visual moment in time and a result of the process it takes to make a painting. Improvisational and painterly, his paintings evoke memories of crisp winter days or the gathering of a summer storm that can almost be smelled. Mr. Adas received his MFA from Purchase College, State University of New York, 1996 and a BFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in 1992. He has exhibited throughout the US and Great Britain.

 

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