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Email PageWorking Waterfront
October 2, 2007- October 20, 2007
Pamela Talese
Atlantic Gallery
135 W 29th St Pamela Talese The John D. McKean in Dry Dock 1 for Painting and Repair |
In this show Talese focuses on the structures within the vast Navy Yard, illustrating how its surviving topography contrasts with the new building that has arisen around it. Where docks and warehouses once stood, gleaming glass towers define today’s priority away from labor and toward luxury.
The vivid paintings in WORKING WATERFRONT include cargo ships, tankers, dredgers, and massive machinery alongside wistful pictures of the Yard’s quiet spaces and amusing arrangements the artist happened upon: two tall mechanical cranes seem to joust, a group of fireboats under white tarpaulins appear shrink-wrapped.
Pamela Talese, a New York City native, worked at this site in the old-fashioned way, cycling from Queens to the Navy Yard, carting her paintings and supplies on a flat bed trailer attached to her bicycle. “What makes the plein-air approach of painting more dynamic to me is not only the changes of weather and light, but also encounters with various tenants at the Yard and conversations that help to inform my understanding. It’s a refreshing mixed-use, multi-cultural place, a rare and genuine, no-flash environment.” WORKING WATERFRONT is Talese’s latest expression of her romance with the city’s lost worlds.
Art Reviews of Working Waterfront
| New York Times October 12, 2007 | Roberta Smith | "...The subjects have all seen better days, but the images are not nostalgic. And despite the paintings' documentary aspect they clearly could not be photographs; they record places of honest work in part by exemplifying it. They are carried by an unforced accuracy abetted by a subtle color sense and straightforward surfaces that are neither finicky nor juiced up...." |
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