19 Sep Hold On: Memories, Love and Loss
On Exhibition September 16th, 2024 – January 3rd, 2025
People use photographs in a number of ways and for a number of purposes. However, one thing is true of all of them: Photographs capture something or someone at a moment in time and make them eternal. This aspect of a photograph encourages many to use their photography as a way to create nostalgia, hold on to what is fleeting and finite, or to generate and reinforce memories.
Hold On: Memories, Love and Loss is a group exhibition, which highlights a collective of five photographers from New Jersey and New York whose works explore aspects of nostalgia, loss and impermanence. In this exhibit, the photographers will present their unique perspectives on the ubiquitous experiences of memories, love and loss.
Featured artists
Christine Back is a New Jersey-based photographer and educator who grew up at the Jersey Shore. The seasonal nature of her hometown instilled in her a keen interest in the effect of impermanence on how we value each other and the places we live, work, and play, themes that are reflected in many of her projects, including PV Revisited, Sure House and (Two Score +) Sixteen Blue.
https://www.christineback.com/#1
Lynne Breitfeller is a New Jersey-based photographer. Through her work, she examines the nuances of everyday life, both the ordinary and unexpected. Lynne’s series, After the Fire: Water Damaged, explores photographs as memory by examining the shape-shifting potential of altered Images.
Maurice Fitzpatrick is a pinhole photographer from New Jersey. His career in medical neuroscience is counterbalanced by a love of fine art and creativity. Many of his pieces capture the essence of light and atmosphere. Sometimes motion that exists only in that fraction or whole seconds of exposure allows the viewer the experience of being present in that otherworldly moment.
Laurie Peek has been a visual artist for over twenty-five years, in which time she has been an educator, photo librarian, photojournalist, PR photographer and award-winning fine artist. Laurie’s In Lieu of Flowers, a series of colorful botanical abstractions, has been both a celebration of, and memorial to, lost loved ones following the drowning of her son in 2020.
Gregory Wieting resides in New Jersey and is a professional still life photographer. Working in monochrome he captures images with depth and narrative power. In 2017, he photographed the end of the Germany-based art collective LeavingHomeFunktion journey/project By Land to New York and how that influenced their home in Halle/Saalz.
