C.R.I.T. at Evie Salon Studio

Saturday February 7th, from 6:00 till 9:00 pm, C.R.I.T. will be having an opening reception of photographic works at Evie Salon Studio in Somerville Massachusetts. Artwork will be on display from February 7th till February 28th.

Image: ©Traverse Day Robinette, Design: ©Nicole Elkins

Evie Salon Studio exhibition includes works by Traverse Day Robinette, Laura Miner, Hannah Bemelmans, Nicole Elkins, Dina Shaposhnikova, Kitty Ethridge, Hannah Engelson and Kate Trenerry.

Brian Fitzgibbons: Water and Sky

Brian Fitzgibbons has historically used photography to capture his point of view surrounding identity, masculinity, sexuality, and the intimate relationship they form with regard to gay men. After taking a hiatus from fine art photography, Brian begins a discovery of a very different nature. Having dealt with the loss of several loved ones over the course of a short time, his thoughts have turned more inward to his relationship to mortality and spirituality. In these beginning images, the relationship between water and sky serve as a focal point for this exploration.

Untitled © 2013 Brian Fitzgibbons

Throughout mythology and theology, mankind has returned time and again to these symbols to represent the spiritual planes, from the Grecian ideas of the river Styx and Hades, to the Judeo-Christian imagery of heaven in the clouds. While at most times very visually separated by horizon, these planes become blurred and enmeshed as atmosphere, fog, and light find their way in-between. This blurring of the lines currently serves as the primary visual language that Brian is working within to represent his current thoughts on his relationship to mortality. Still very much weighted by these losses, Brian finds himself in that proverbial fog, caught between the water and sky. The final trajectory of this work is still to be discovered and, as with loss itself, can only be made clear as time allows this fog to pass.

Untitled © 2013 Brian Fitzgibbons

Untitled © 2013 Brian Fitzgibbons

Hannah Bemelmans: Iceland

These pictures are from Thingvellir, Iceland.  Here you can see the rifts created by tectonic plate movement. These pictures are taken between the plates of North America and Eurasia.  This is also the site of Iceland's first official government.  When the settlers decided to create a singular government, they searched the land and decided on this place to assemble once a year to make laws and settle disputes.

 

 Armansfell, Thingvellir, Iceland 2011 © Hannah Bemelmans

 

 Cairn, Thingvellir, Iceland 2011 © Hannah Bemelmans

 

 Moss and Lava, Thingvellir, Iceland 2011 © Hannah Bemelmans

 

Inside the Rift, Thingvellir, Iceland 2011 © Hannah Bemelmans

Rift, Thingvellir, Iceland 2011 © Hannah Bemelmans

Memorial Drive: by Kendra Adams

These images are the rough draft for the beginning of a project on Memorial Drive in Atlanta, GA. Memorial Drive is a poor, rundown, 20+ mile road running from the outskirts of Atlanta into downtown. It is also one street away from my house so I am faced on a daily basis with the constant sprawling empty parking lots, cracking paint, and kudzu engulfing abandoned buildings. These pictures capture shells from a life once lived now empty and lifeless.

Kendra Adams ©2011

Kendra Adams ©2011

Kendra Adams ©2011

Kendra Adams ©2011

Kendra Adams ©2011