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TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON...
Larry Rankin Thursday, October 3 through Saturday, November 2, 2024 Opening Reception: Thursday, October 3, 5–7:00 pm Art Forum Online: October 17, 7:30 pm |
Larry Rankin, End-times, photograph, 2024
TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON...
Larry Rankin
On display at Gallery A3 in October, Larry Rankin’s black-and-white photographs in “To everything there is a season…” include portraits of people and views of the natural world and human constructions—some enduring, some ephemeral.
As a photographer, Larry Rankin acknowledges that color has always caught his eye and compelled his image making. “But color usually dominates and holds us in the moment,” he says. “Time can seem static. And color may establish a mood independent of the subject matter.” In his current exhibition, he eschews the obvious attraction of color photography in favor of exploring possibilities of black-and-white photography.
Larry was initially drawn to black-and-white images in thinking about how we perceive time and in considering how a photograph might influence that perception. He realized that the absence of color in the black-and-white photograph frees the viewer from a focus on the concrete here-and-now. This, in turn, enables abstraction and freedom to explore the dimensions of time, both the past and the future. “I hope the viewer will feel a sense of nostalgia or an expectation of what is yet to come, and an awareness that time is a dynamic, in which we are fleeting participants,” he says.
Larry Rankin
On display at Gallery A3 in October, Larry Rankin’s black-and-white photographs in “To everything there is a season…” include portraits of people and views of the natural world and human constructions—some enduring, some ephemeral.
As a photographer, Larry Rankin acknowledges that color has always caught his eye and compelled his image making. “But color usually dominates and holds us in the moment,” he says. “Time can seem static. And color may establish a mood independent of the subject matter.” In his current exhibition, he eschews the obvious attraction of color photography in favor of exploring possibilities of black-and-white photography.
Larry was initially drawn to black-and-white images in thinking about how we perceive time and in considering how a photograph might influence that perception. He realized that the absence of color in the black-and-white photograph frees the viewer from a focus on the concrete here-and-now. This, in turn, enables abstraction and freedom to explore the dimensions of time, both the past and the future. “I hope the viewer will feel a sense of nostalgia or an expectation of what is yet to come, and an awareness that time is a dynamic, in which we are fleeting participants,” he says.
Larry Rankin, Ancient Ice, photograph, 2024
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Larry Rankin, Old Salt, photograph, 2024
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Art Forum Online
Thursday, October 17 at 7:30
In an Art Forum online on October 17, Larry and photographer Bob Solosko will invite participants to consider with them the impact of images in color and in black-and-white regarding a sense of time and emotional content, and an appreciation of other characteristics such as composition and structure. This Art in Community II program is supported in part by grants from the Amherst Cultural Council and the Springfield Cultural Council, local agencies, which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. (Click here for video of this event.)
Thursday, October 17 at 7:30
In an Art Forum online on October 17, Larry and photographer Bob Solosko will invite participants to consider with them the impact of images in color and in black-and-white regarding a sense of time and emotional content, and an appreciation of other characteristics such as composition and structure. This Art in Community II program is supported in part by grants from the Amherst Cultural Council and the Springfield Cultural Council, local agencies, which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. (Click here for video of this event.)