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Posted on March 14, 2019

Homage to the Forest
Elliot Schildkrout
April 4 – June 20, 2019

Reception: April 18, 2019, 6:30PM-8PM

Trees with orange sky
© Elliot Schildkrout, courtesy of the artist and 555 Gallery

Artist Statement:

Over the years, the woods, a lifelong cherished place for me, have deepened as a source of spiritual nourishment. As the forest turns with the seasons, I too, see the woods in a larger spiral that links together life, death, and our fragile dependence on the other. We breathe each other’s breath, and we share each other’s fate.

In the last few years, I moved from doing traditional landscape work to making multiple exposures in camera.   As images mixed together in color and time, I welcomed the unexpected serendipity of the process. Blending layers, changing colors, mixing movement with clarity captured for me a deeper sense of the forest’s mystery and my relationship to it. It’s never the same, and I have reveled in the surprise.

But the images also spoke to me of another more ominous theme that has been with me for a long time — the slow and relentless advance of climate change.  I was photographing while California burned, and I deeply felt how out of balance we (I) have become with nature’s restorative rhythm. I fear I have irrevocably turned way from that responsibility. Our hand reaches deep into nature’s ever spinning web, and of course, at the same time we are simply a part of its evolutionary song. My pictures help me slow down a bit, so I can retune, and at least pay some homage to this forest home of ours.

Bio

Elliot Schildkrout began photography in the 1960s in a course with Lisette Model at the New School in New York City. His early years were consumed with studying the works of Edward Weston, Harry Callahan, and Aaron Siskind. At the University of Rochester, Elliot studied with William Giles, a student of Minor White. While practicing medicine, he continued making photographs and was accepted into the Polaroid collection. For several years Elliot worked with SX-70 and 4×5 Polaroid materials; one of his images was published in Barbara Hitchcock’s book, The Polaroid Collection. Since retiring from medical practice, his photographic subjects have shifted from urban scenes to landscapes, ones increasingly captured from a more internal, spiritual perspective. Elliot’s current work, Wonderland, focuses on multiple in-camera imagery. He is represented by the 555 Gallery, which moved from its Boston Gallery space to ARTSY. All photographs are courtesy of the artist and 555 Gallery. You can view his work both on ARTSY and on his website: elliotschildkroutphotography.com and Instagram: @elliotschildkrout

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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.

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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

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