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Posted on April 2, 2014

Human Nature
Brian Alterio
– June 8, 2014

Opening reception April 10, 2014 7-8:30 PM
Members talk 6:15 Brian Alterio

  • Three black calle lillies on gray background.
  • Four hite calle Lillies on black background.

Brian Alterio’s successful photojournalism career was put on hold due to the advent of digital technology. As a digital pioneer Alterio helped shaped the imaging technology that we know today. After thirty years, in late 2011, Alterio roused his creative interest in photography and began again shooting botanicals in black and white in parallel to the human figure.

Alterio’s series, Human Nature, is featured in the Atelier Gallery at the Griffin Museum April 10 through June 8, 2014. An opening reception with the artist is April 10, 7-8:30 p.m.

"I observed the slow, magnificent blooming of an Amaryllis and it inspired me," says Alterio. "I was entranced by the flower’s organic beauty, but even more taken by the powerful push/pull of its form against an accidentally dark background. This fascinating journey with floral images seemed strikingly evocative of the humbling studies of the human figure by our esteemed photographic predecessors. In response, I began also to study of the human figure in conjunction with my ongo­ing studies of floral images, finding the coincidences of the human form and lines in space played against the floral images infinitely compelling."

"One could say that Alterio’s studies of the flower and human form speak to his realization of the inevitability of life’s cyclic twists and turns," says Paula Tognarelli, executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography. "We all look back to canvass our experiences and accomplishments. What Alterio’s photographs say to me is that eventually, women and men alike, seek out respite and sanctuary from a success-oriented life style."

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Floor Plan

Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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