ROADS
a
series of photographs by
SILAS SHABELEWSKA
in her
first solo exhibition in NYC
JANUARY 17 – MARCH 18, 2006
Opening
reception: Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 6 – 8 PM
BJORN
RESSLE FINE ART
16 East
79th Street (between Fifth & Madison), 2nd floor
New York, NY
10021
Tel. (212) 744
2266 or 879 5445
With her
large-scale, selenium-toned silver gelatin prints (60 x 42.5 inches) on Classic
Charcoal paper, and without digital or other alteration, Silas Shabelewska
pursues her interest in applying 19th-century feeling and technology to a
contemporary approach. ROADS represents her most accomplished work
to date. The exhibition, focusing on America, represents the first part of a
longer body of work on roads around the world.
As if to discover America for herself, Shabelewska has found
in its roadways a metaphor for what most of us believe this country still to be
- an open, relatively unspoiled canvas which all are free to personally traverse
and, like some nomadic Jackson Pollock, make their mark(s). Shabelewska finds
her subject matter in places where most of us don't even bother to look, much
less see for their poetic potential.
- Robert
G. Edelman, independent writer and curator in
New York;
from the exhibition catalogue
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