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September 6, 2007- October 6, 2007
Reception: September 6, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Beth Ganz
Reeves Contemporary
535 W 24th StBeth Ganz opens a show of new photographic works on September 6th at Reeves Contemporary on 535 West 24th Street in New York. In the project space, Soo Sunny Sunny installs Fractal Immersions, a site-specific installation continuing her exploration of refracted interior and exterior spaces. Both exhibitions run through October 6th. The artists' reception is on Thursday, September 6th, from 6-8 p.m.
Ganz's new work challenges the traditional aesthetics of landscape photography. Her new imagery focuses on the topographies and reliefs of Iceland in both the negative and positive - the photogravures feature volcanic and geothermal sites, including petrified lava flows, inert volcanoes, obsidian lava fields, geothermal steam vents and the Blue Lagoon. The addition of hand-painted maps interjects an element of historical exploration, which complements the nineteenth century process of photogravure. The flux between the surface of the image and the photograph's illusory depth alludes, as well, to landscape paintings' historical legacy of offering a window onto another world.
Ganz's images are at once supported and disrupted by the play between negative and positive, surface and depth, landscape image and map-like painted detail. The use of the fragile kozo paper in conjunction with the weight and mass of the topographies serves the artist's intent well: the collaged reverse imagery becomes a finely honed exchange of mirror-image shapes.
Ganz has had several solo exhibitions in New York and elsewhere; her prints have been included in many group shows in the United States, England, Europe, and India since 1989. Her work is well represented in public and private collections including; the Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY; New York Historical Society, New York, NY; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; New York Public Library, New York, NY; and U.S. Department of State Art Bank.
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