Past Show • October 3 to November 2, 2019
ERIC BROUDY
KEITH HOLLINGWORTH
OPENING / Amherst Arts Night Plus: First Thursday, October 3, 5-8:00 pm
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Eric Broudy, Beyond the Beach
With their starting point as a particular beach in South Carolina, Eric Broudy’s photographic images are all ofthe beach, but in some ways reach well beyondthe beach itself. “Photography for me is a means of seeing, of observing our world closely and to appreciate its beauty, its unique aspects, and to lend purpose to my time on this earth,” he explains. Images vary from nature’s own abstractions at the water’s edge to double exposures to some unusual but more recognizable beach scenes that, again, aim to draw the viewer’s imagination beyond the physical forms of the beach. The overlaid, double exposures are not produced with Photoshop, but are visualized through and completed within the camera itself, a Fuji X-T1.
Broudy notes that despite the ubiquity of high-tech cameras and cell phones and the technical ease of photographic enhancement, “Much still depends on the photographer’s eye, his patience and planning and, sometimes, the sheer luck of being in the right place at an opportune moment. As the saying goes, ‘Chance favors the prepared mind’.”
Keith Hollingworth, Mixed Media Paintings
While eschewing pressure to verbalize what is essentially a visual experience, Keith Hollingworth describes a studio process that seeks to find the spiritual in art and results in mixed media paintings that hold qualities of a reflective contemplation. He begins with an idea and an image, while at the same time, he also strives to remain open to the various possibilities of change and builds on earlier work in the same series. “The next piece usually evolves from the previous piece,” he says. “I do not have a right way of doing this; I try to stay open to possibilities.”
Nearly four decades ago, after a two-year hiatus from making art, Hollingworth returned to the studio with a new approach. “I knew that I wanted to find the spiritual in art, although I really don't like the term ‘spiritual’ because it smacks of all kinds of worlds that I do not relate to,” he explains. “That search for the spiritual in art continues, but I do not know how to define it.”
Images above, left to right:
Keith Hollingworth, Detail View 1, mixed media painting
Eric Broudy, Summer Daydream, photograph
With their starting point as a particular beach in South Carolina, Eric Broudy’s photographic images are all ofthe beach, but in some ways reach well beyondthe beach itself. “Photography for me is a means of seeing, of observing our world closely and to appreciate its beauty, its unique aspects, and to lend purpose to my time on this earth,” he explains. Images vary from nature’s own abstractions at the water’s edge to double exposures to some unusual but more recognizable beach scenes that, again, aim to draw the viewer’s imagination beyond the physical forms of the beach. The overlaid, double exposures are not produced with Photoshop, but are visualized through and completed within the camera itself, a Fuji X-T1.
Broudy notes that despite the ubiquity of high-tech cameras and cell phones and the technical ease of photographic enhancement, “Much still depends on the photographer’s eye, his patience and planning and, sometimes, the sheer luck of being in the right place at an opportune moment. As the saying goes, ‘Chance favors the prepared mind’.”
Keith Hollingworth, Mixed Media Paintings
While eschewing pressure to verbalize what is essentially a visual experience, Keith Hollingworth describes a studio process that seeks to find the spiritual in art and results in mixed media paintings that hold qualities of a reflective contemplation. He begins with an idea and an image, while at the same time, he also strives to remain open to the various possibilities of change and builds on earlier work in the same series. “The next piece usually evolves from the previous piece,” he says. “I do not have a right way of doing this; I try to stay open to possibilities.”
Nearly four decades ago, after a two-year hiatus from making art, Hollingworth returned to the studio with a new approach. “I knew that I wanted to find the spiritual in art, although I really don't like the term ‘spiritual’ because it smacks of all kinds of worlds that I do not relate to,” he explains. “That search for the spiritual in art continues, but I do not know how to define it.”
Images above, left to right:
Keith Hollingworth, Detail View 1, mixed media painting
Eric Broudy, Summer Daydream, photograph