November 2-30, 2009

Opening Reception Nov. 12th, 2009 6pm-9pm

Andrea Raynor has taught photography for the past 15 years as well as maintaining a painting studio for he past 10 years. This current body of work represents working with both photography and painting within a subtractive process.

The photographs are all found portraits from a cemetery in Venice Italy.

None of the images have been altered digitally only to be cropped and enlarged. They were documented to demonstrate how little information could

be conveyed but still read as a portrait of a person. The process of time passing and different levels of decay slowly working the portrait away to the

bare minimum of representation.

Raynor’s large scale paintings begin as fields of black. She then carves out form using gold paint, creating negative space. The resulting images are linear and gestural. The reduction of color to simply black and gold creates a strong graphic sensation. The goal of the painting to see how much can be reduced and still have the painting read as an active gesture. Both the photographs and

paintings use light to reduce the images, what remains is hopefully where the content lies. 

Raynor’s background in photography has strongly influenced her approach to these paintings, as both forms allow her to use light as the subject of her work, as well as the instrument for creating reaction to the piece.

Michael Weintrob PhotographyNew Music Photography Exhibit Showcases Modern Music Experience Captured Through the Lense of Young Brooklyn PhotographerSeptember 5-28, 2008

Music meets visual art on the walls of Chelsea’s Spencer Loft Gallery at the “See the Sound” exhibit featuring the music photography of Brooklyn based photographer, Michael Weintrob.

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Crosses
Photographic Portraits in black and white
October 31 - November 3, 2007

Reception for the artist - November 1, 7-10pm Book signing and readings by subjects from the book

The Gallery at Spencer Lofts is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs from the newly published book “Crosses: Portraits of Clergy Abuse” by New York photographer Carmine Galasso.

The photographs taken over the course of three years in the Boston area and in small towns and big cities across the country, tell the very personal stories of the men and women at the heart of the nationwide Clergy abuse scandals - the survivors. (more…)