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photo-eye Gallery Opening Saturday November 20th, Brad Wilson:The Other World photo-eye Gallery
photo-eye Gallery is thrilled to announce the opening of The Other World: Animal Portraits, featuring images from represented artist Brad Wilson and celebrating the release of a book by the same name
Brad Wilson, Grand Cayman Blue Iguana #1, Albuquerque, NM, 2016, 22x29", Edition of 15, $2000

BRAD WILSON 
The Other World: Animal Portraits 
Opening and book signing: Saturday, November 20, 2021, 4 - 6 PM 
Exhibition on view: November 20, 2021 - December, 2021
photo-eye Gallery is currently located at 1300 Rufina Circle, Suite A3, Santa Fe, NM, 87507

photo-eye Gallery is thrilled to announce the opening of The Other World: Animal Portraits, featuring images from represented artist Brad Wilson and celebrating the release of a book by the same name. 

The Other World: Animal Portraits, published through Damiani Publishers in Italy, showcases images from Wilson’s well-known Affinity series. Animal subjects
practically jump off of the page in luminous detail, with each individuating trait articulated with a sharpness that usually feels reserved for the world
 of high fashion. Wilson’s technical eye and artistic sensitivity allows for the viewer to have a direct confrontation with the beauty contained within every bird, cat, animal and reptile that he photographs. Through the lens of the endangered, the artist attempts to achieve the ultimate goal of bridging the interspecies divide. 

>> View more images from the Affinity series <<


Brad Wilson, Chimpanzee #16, Los Angeles, 2016, 22x29″, Edition of 15, $2000
 
The Other World: Animal Portraits presents Brad Wilson’s beautiful, vivid wildlife portraits in lush color across full landscape spreads. Photographed on location in wildlife sanctuaries and conservancies, Brad Wilson’s emotive portraits showcase the singularity of each of his animal subjects in the small details that make them who they are. Wilson worked with animal handlers in sessions ranging anywhere from 1-4hrs (sometimes longer), most of which were comprised of waiting for the animals to present themselves to him. This method of photographing, which emphasizes an “authentic encounter” with the wildlife even in a modified studio setting, enables the audience to understand the relaxed, but incredibly powerful presence of each animal that Wilson captures. 


Brad Wilson, King Penguin #2, 2019, 22x29″, Edition of 15, $2000

 

As Wilson says:  

In each animal’s gaze we see a part of ourselves and catch a fleeting glimpse of another world, a world we once fully inhabit deserve to follow their own unique path into the future, wherever it may lead them. 


>> Purchase The Other World: Animal Portraits through photo-eye <<

 

Brad Wilson

Brad Wilson is a photographer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He studied studio art and art history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill after which he moved to New York City where he eventually committed himself
to working as a commercial photographer and ne artist full time. He has produced two other titles in addition to The Other World, those being Wildlife (2014) and Tiere for Der Kamera (2014) through Prestel Publishing. Wilson’s images were selected as the global face of the Microsoft Corporation from 2016-2020 and is included in the collections of the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Blake Collection as well. 



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Given amounts are starting print prices and are subject to change.

photo-eye Gallery is proud to represent Brad Wilson.

For more information, and to purchase prints by Brad Wilson please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Delaney Hoffman, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202



photo-eye Gallery Kate Breakey: Tree Stories Opening Friday, November 29, 2019 Alexandra Jo Tree Stories encompasses a wide array of approaches to a singular subject as the exhibition will include a combination of the many photographic materials and techniques Breakey is known for. An opening reception for Tree Stories will take place this Friday, November 29th from 5-7 pm in coordination with the Railyard Arts District Last Friday Art Walk.

Above Image: Kate Breakey, Tree of Life, Mesquite, Full Moon Rising, Bahrain, Hand colored archival pigment print

The versatility of technique that comes from Kate Breakey’s studio is astounding. Though all of the work centers around photography, Breakey is an artist who explores the relationship between materials and images with a sense of openness and experimentation. This Friday, November 29,  photo-eye Gallery will host an opening reception for Tree Stories, our current exhibition featuring a diverse selection of Kate Breakey's photographs.

Kate Breakey, Eucalyptus Trees, Xmas Day, South Australia, 
Archival pigment ink on glass, 24k gold leaf, 5 x 12 inches, $1375 Framed 
Some of the oldest living things on earth are trees. Simultaneously fascinating and daunting in their endurance, trees are seemingly still and eternal, yet are constantly growing and changing. Trees have many stories to tell, as forests provide the backdrop for countless fairytales, ghost stories, and ancient mythologies. Home to a variety of creatures, intelligent beyond our full understanding, and vital to many of earth’s ecosystems, these deciduous beings connect many aspects of life on our planet. Trees can experience the equivalent of many human lifetimes and have become symbols for the cycles and mysteries of the natural world.

Tree Stories encompasses a wide array of approaches to a single subject, as the exhibition will include a combination of the many photographic materials and techniques Breakey is known for. Shimmering gold-leaf orotones bring richness and a dazzling quality of light to this selection of work. Hand-colored photographs of trees are traditionally illustrative and straightforward, while delicately hand-embroidered photographs of bird nests on silk embody grace and elegance in exquisite detail.

This exhibition also coincides with photo-eye’s 40th Anniversary celebration. Founded as a mail-order photography book source in 1979 in Austin, Texas by Rixon Reed, photo-eye has grown into one of the leading contemporary photography galleries while continuing as the oldest and largest photography bookstore in the country. Today, photoeye.com is recognized as one of the foremost websites devoted to contemporary photography and our online bookstore includes the world’s largest selection of contemporary photobooks. photo-eye Gallery and Bookstore have been in Santa Fe since 1991.

Kate Breakey, Nest 32, Hand embroidered archival pigment print on silk, 24 x 24 inches, Edition of 20, $2290


Tree Stories will run November 22, 2019 to February 22nd, 2020 with an opening reception this Friday, November 29th from 5-7pm in coordination with the Railyard Arts District Last Friday Art Walk.


ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kate Breakey was born in Adelaide, Australia and received her MFA in photography from the University of Texas, Austin in 1991. Breakey is known for working in a multitude of photographic techniques, including large-scale, hand-colored archival pigment prints, gold-leaf backed orotones printed on glass, and hand-embroidered images printed on silk. Since 1981 her work has appeared in more than 75 solo exhibitions and more than 50 group exhibitions in the United States, France, Japan, Australia, China, and New Zealand.

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

For more information, and to purchase artworks, please contact photo-eye Gallery Staff at:
(505) 988-5152 x 202 or gallery@photoeye.com


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