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Posted on November 9, 2016

Food Cycles
Francine Zaslow
September 16 – November 12, 2010

An opening reception is September 16, 6-8 PM. Zaslow presents a gallery talk at Digital Silver Imaging on October 14, 7 PM.

Two fish forming a circle
©Francine Zaslow
Eggs
©Francine Zaslow

 

Francine Zaslow is known for her ability to take mundane products and transform them into something unexpected.

A series of her photographs, Food Cycles, is featured at the Griffin Museum at Digital Silver Imaging in Belmont, MA, September 16 through November 12. An opening reception is September 16, 6-8 PM.

In her commercial and fine art work, Zaslow has often photographed food. She says, “I have never considered myself a food connoisseur, yet this has been, oddly, of real benefit – enabling me to see what, perhaps, the chefs themselves may not. This is a process still unfolding.”

Zaslow sees food as a cycle of life and death. She says her images look at food such as pigs feet and sardines unblinkingly. “Their death gives us life. Their impossibly elegant photographic form also gives our imagination life. And they remind us without words of the potent inevitability of our own passing – our, in turn, becoming food for a larger design, food for the Earth.”

Zaslow’s work often focuses on the co-existence of apparent opposites, which is true of this series, as well. She says she “chooses eerie delicacies like black eggs and chicken feet, transforming them with lens and light into brand new visual treasure.” Zaslow grew up in a family of artists and was strongly influenced by her mother, an accomplished sculptor whose work concentrated on the human form. As she watched her mother work, she began to see how light would define the texture and dimension as the figure would come to life. This creative environment encouraged her to experiment and explore her own unique vision.

She earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Philadelphia College of Art. After college, she moved to Boston and opened a commercial photography studio, working with ad agencies across the country. Among her many clients are Fresh, Timberland, Panera Bread, and Gillette.

Zaslow presents a gallery talk at Digital Silver Imaging on October 14, 7 PM.

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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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