photo-eye Gallery OPENING SOON | Blue Violet: Photographs and Text by Cig Harvey photo-eye Gallery
photo-eye Gallery is pleased to announce Blue Violet: Photographs and Text by Cig Harvey, an online solo exhibition by renowned photographer Cig Harvey. This exhibition opens online on July 3rd, and corresponds with Harvey's recent photobook Blue Violet, published by The Monacelli Press.

Cig Harvey, Roses, Yellow Car, 2020, archival pigment print, 16" x 20," edition of 10, $3000

photo-eye Gallery is pleased to announce Blue Violet: Photographs and Text by Cig Harvey, an online solo exhibition by renowned photographer Cig Harvey. This exhibition opens online on July 3rd, and corresponds with Harvey's recent photobook Blue Violet, published by The Monacelli Press.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

In the vein of magical realism, rooted in her personal experience, Cig Harvey frames a series of allegorical narratives in Blue Violet, that elevate the ordinary to the extraordinary. The exquisite palette, the soft light and deep contrast of her imagery, the subtle drawings and poetic language, evoke dreamy yet profound emotional images that illustrate the relationship of the human condition to the natural world.

Cig Harvey, Clouds in the Lake, 2020, archival pigment print, 20" x 16," edition of 10, $3000

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

"Blue Violet is a celebration of the natural world and the senses. Blue Violet is a vibrant meditation on the procession of seasons, sensory abundance, and the magic in everyday life." — Cig Harvey

Publisher's Description

Part art book, botanical guide, historical encyclopedia, and poetry collection, Blue Violet is a compendium of beauty, color, and the senses.

Cig Harvey, Angel Trumpets, 2020, archival pigment print, 20" x 16," edition of 10, $3000

Plants, flowers, and our experience of the natural world are the threads that tie this unique book together. Exploring the five senses, Blue Violet takes the reader on a personal journey through nature and the range of human emotions. 

 

As with her previous three titles — You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Gardening at Night, and You an Orchestra You a Bomb — this book invites the reader to pause, laugh, cry, create, and become more aware of the natural world. Images and text in a variety of forms (prose poetry, recipes, lists, research pieces, diagrams) focus on immediate experience to understand the vibrancy of the senses on memory and feelings.

Cig Harvey, Scout and the Pansies, 2020, archival pigment print, 20" x 16," edition of 10, $3000

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Cig Harvey is an artist who uses images and language to explore sensory experience and elevate the everyday. Rich in implied narrative, deeply rooted in the natural world, her work is devoted to the topic of what it is to feel. 

 

Cig Harvey. Photo Credit: David Brommer

Her work has been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, BBC, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, Vice, The Sunday Times, The Independent, Marie Claire Italia, and New York Magazine. Cig Harvey's work is included in permanent collections of major institutions including, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine. Harvey was named one of the 2021 recipients of the Farnsworth’s Maine in America Award and was named the 2018 Prix Virginia Laureate, an international photography award based out of Paris, among many other honors. Harvey has published three previous sold out monographs the first of which: You Look At Me Like An Emergency, was accompanied by a solo museum show at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway in Spring 2012. The artist lives and works in rural Maine.

 

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photo-eye Gallery is proud to represent Cig Harvey. To learn more about the artist and view her work, click on the links below.

 

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All prices listed were current at the time this post was published.

For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Patricia Martin, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202

 

photo-eye Gallery OPENING TODAY | My Childhood Reassembled by Richard Tuschman photo-eye Gallery
photo-eye Gallery is thrilled to present My Childhood Reassembled, an online solo exhibition by New York-based photographer Richard Tuschman.

Richard Tuschman, Five O'Clock Shadows, 2016-2019, archival pigment print, 14.5 x 21.5 inches, edition of 5, $2000

photo-eye Gallery is thrilled to present My Childhood Reassembled, an online solo exhibition by New York-based photographer Richard Tuschman.

In the beautifully nostalgic, contemplative, and visually captivating new work by Richard Tuschman, the real world fuses with digitally created realms, resulting in seamless images portraying the magical and fluid times of youth. A self-taught model maker and photographer, Tuschman painstakingly crafted miniature sets of his childhood home, photographed them, and then digitally inserted real models into the images to recreate the most significant memories from his early years in emotionally compelling scenes with open-ended narratives.

My Childhood Reassembled uses photo-eye’s revolutionary new VisualServer X website builder and is the third in photo-eye's series of online exhibitions, and is the artist's third exhibition with photo-eye Gallery.

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Richard Tuschman, Early Morning, 2016-2019, archival pigment print, 14.5 x 21.5 inches, edition of 5, $2000

Artist Statement:

I grew up in the American suburban Midwest of the early 1960s. This project reflects my experience in that time and place as a young child trying to make sense out of his world and his family relationships. For this visual memoir, I photographically recreated selected vignettes from my childhood. Based on memory and family snapshots, I constructed a replica of portions of the interior and exterior of my childhood home. I then directed and photographed an ensemble of actor-models who resembled my family members.

The title, My Childhood Reassembled, in addition to describing the act of physically reconstructing the environment, also refers to the science that has shown that memories are not static, but are recreated and reassembled each time they are conjured in the human brain.

 

Richard Tuschman, Grilled Cheese, 2016-2019, archival pigment print, 21.5 x 14.5 inches, edition of 5, $2000

The set is a replica of the modest house in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where my parents, brother, sister and I lived from 1958–1966, or from when I was age two to age ten. These were my formative years, and my most significant and emotionally resonant childhood memories spring from then and there. Architecturally, the house was exceptionally unremarkable. Built in 1955 on one quarter of an acre, the utilitarian two-family, red brick cube contained two identical three-bedroom apartments, one on each of its two floors. Devoid of almost any architectural ornamentation, the textures and physical characteristics I recall most vividly are the coarse, tightly woven pale brown wall-to-wall carpeting, the mostly unadorned plain, off-white walls, the blue-green mid-century patterned linoleum in the kitchen, the harsh light from the large picture window in the living room, and the rough red brick texture of the exterior. What interests me are the many rich emotional associations conjured by these simple sensory recollections. For example, when I think of the heavily varnished, badly nicked, inexpensive hollow-core bedroom doors I remember the complicated, mixed feelings I harbored towards my siblings, who were alternately my best friends and arch-rivals. When I think of the kitchen linoleum floor, I remember wondering, with a mix of anxiety and curiosity, about the mysteries of my parents’ marriage, trying to make sense of their hushed tones as they spoke quietly in that room when my father came home from work late at night.

 

Richard Tuschman, Pretend Grown Ups, 2016-2019, archival pigment print, 14.5 x 21.5 inches, edition of 5, $2000

The visually nondescript rooms of My Childhood Reassembled, in contrast to the more romantically picturesque architectural elements and textures of past projects, confront the viewer as stubbornly aesthetically mute, and this is how I remember them. Thus, by necessity, I have relied almost completely on a variety of expressive lighting strategies, along with the actors’ expressions and body language, to convey the range of moods.

Childhood is as emotionally complex a period as any other stage of life, though as children we lack the ability to put such a wide range of feelings into any coherent perspective. Life then can be at times especially magical, at times mysterious, and at times bewilderingly sad. My hope and my aim has been to create a picture that expresses both the joy and pathos of childhood, as reflected in the fluctuating and ever-changing mirror of my memory.

– Richard Tuschman

 

Richard Tuschman's studio. Diorama used in My Childhood Reassembled

 

Richard Tuschman's cat. Diorama used in My Childhood Reassembled

 

 

» View Richard Tuschman's Hopper Meditations

 

» View Richard Tuschman's Once Upon a Time in Kazimierz

Richard Tuschman © 2021

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Richard Tuschman's new works are available in two sizes. Currently, all prints are in their 1st tier, but prints are limited and prices are subject to change.

For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Patricia Martin, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202