"Introspection"
featuring Alla Podolsky and James Pryor
May 8 - June 1, 2014
Opening reception: Saturday, May 10, 5-9 pm
Closing Reception: Sunday, June 1, 1-3 pm
"My images play both in emotion and technique, while portraying private thoughts as public displays." —James Pryor.
"To produce any kind of work, an artist must look inside first. Artists
are the ultimate observers, examiners, and interpreters of the internal
for the outside world." —Alla Podolsky
Photographer James Pryor and painter Alla Podolsky, both of the Artists'
Gallery in Lambertville, NJ, share their new work in "Introspection," a
joint show running Thursday, May 8 through Sunday, June 1.
An opening reception will be held Saturday, May 10, from 5 pm to 9 pm.
The artists will also host a closing reception from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on
June 1. All are welcome!
"I paint moments, slices of time," says Alla Podolsky, "either taken
directly from events or supplied by recollection and imagination. Often
those intermingle, creating a different kind of reality. They are
intensely personal, and yet, I believe, universal. We all carry whole
worlds inside ourselves, and it's our job as artist to communicate them,
to give them space, interpretation, and life on the outside. We are in a
rather unique position of looking inward by expressing outward. Our
introspections are public." Alla Podolsky traces her love of
psychological painting to the ancient Byzantine icons she saw as a child
in Kiev, Ukraine, the city where she was born and raised. She
considers herself a "human" painter, the one who paints people,
experiences that are inextricably theirs, bearing the stamps of their
humanity. Her work deals with the traces people leave on their
surroundings and times, and with the traces the surroundings and time
leave on the people.
"My style and images combine into subtle emotions that engage the
viewer. I have always believed that one should put to print what
stimulates," states James Pryor. Combining his custom adapted flex
body camera along with his unique printing methods, he has established a
creative dreamlike "other-world" through select focus with textural
dimension. "My images play both in emotion and technique, while
portraying private thoughts as public displays. I find myself
emotionally divided as to exhibit my impressions while guarding my
intention. If my images are to be taken literally, then let the viewer
come to respect my work as simply honest. Whether my subjects are human
figures, places or themes, all interpretations remain emotionally
confined within a single dimensional print; this art is my passion."
Having studied psychology, philosophy and a little theology, James'
visual environment is one of awakening. His images explore reactions to
strength, weakness, assertion, submission and the beauty that
surrounds.
