BE THEREDegrees of SeparationPresented by Michael Mazzeo Gallery July 12, 2007- September 8, 2007Shelby Lee Adams, Mary Presley Adams, Mauro Altamura, Marco Ambrosi, DaveAnderson, Roswell Angier, Sheila Pree Bright, David Wilson Burnham, Julie Dennis Brothers, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Peikwen Cheng, Albert Chong, Annabel Clark, Valdir Cruz, Rachael Dunville, Roger Eberhard, Amy Elkins, Martine Fougeron, Allen Frame, Wyatt Gallery, Stan Gaz, Justin Guariglia, Charles Harbutt, Jefferson Hayman, Jason Horowitz, Joelle Jensen, Jimmy & Dena Katz, Rafaelo Kazakov, Mark Kessell, Yasutaka Kojima, Milomir Kovacevic, Jason Langer, Li Jie Liu, O Rufus Lovett, Joseph Maida, Gratiane de Moustier, Mladen Pikulic, Dan Nelken, France Scully Osterman, Mark Osterman, Sung Jin Park, Paolo Pellegrin, Matthew Pillsbury, Nicholas Prior, Chris Rauschenberg, Frank Rodick, Jessica Rowe, Junsik Shin, Elizabeth Siegfried, Inbal Sivan, Radek Skrivanek, Will Steacy, Maura Sullivan, Joseph Szabo, Brad Temkin, Vicki Topaz, Charles Traub, Preston Wadley, Ann Weathersby, Frederic Weber, Marc YankusPeer Gallery is pleased to announce Degrees of Separation, our summer portrait salon, curated by John A. Bennette. The exhibition will open on July 12 and run through September 8. The exhibition consists of more than eighty images, selected by Mr. Bennette, from a diverse, international group of more than fifty photographers. Degrees of Separation is for voyeurs. In fact, photographs are a voyeur’s tool; they allow us to look and study each other at leisure, and to recognize our connections. Photographs put us one degree or more away; they give us time to look, without staring. At it’s most basic, the photographic portrait is a totem, a sacred fetish. Whether we notice that aspect or not isn’t important because, like family and friends, it can be taken for granted. Even the most contemporary photo is based on the traditions of culture and art representation, as well as the dynamic between the artist and the sitter. One inspiration for this show was photographs of rooms in which portraits are on display by Sheila Pree Bright, Joelle Jensen, and Jessica Rowe. This expanded to include images of people with portraits, like a relatively unknown Shelby Lee Adams image, “Mother and Child,” that was part of a New York Times project. It is surprising how many artists work on individual portraits that describe a community, and then become another type of portrait: Marco Ambrosi’s studio photographs of Verona’s West African immigrants in their Sunday best. Rachel Dunville’s intimate and trusting photographs of friends and neighbors in her small, mid-western town reassure us. O Rufus Lovett’s images from Weeping Mary, Texas are a portrait of place as well as people, taken over time. Dave Anderson also looks at people to say something about a place. A number of these images repeat a rhythm of details. Similar, if not exact themes compare Roger Eberhard’s “Russian Street Worker” and Brad Temkin’s “Kevin Walsh, Mississippi”. There are physiological portraits that show waiting, and interpretive images that sometimes take a different approach as in the work of Vicki Topaz and Stan Gaz . This show is about looking, finding clues, and comparing details, and maybe smiling as we see how we are alike. Artists in the show include: Shelby Lee Adams, Mary Presley Adams, Mauro Altamura, Marco Ambrosi, DaveAnderson, Roswell Angier, Sheila Pree Bright, David Wilson Burnham, Julie Dennis Brothers, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Peikwen Cheng, Albert Chong, Annabel Clark, Valdir Cruz, Rachael Dunville, Roger Eberhard, Amy Elkins, Martine Fougeron, Allen Frame, Wyatt Gallery, Stan Gaz, Justin Guariglia, Charles Harbutt, Jefferson Hayman, Jason Horowitz, Joelle Jensen, Jimmy & Dena Katz, Rafaelo Kazakov, Mark Kessell, Yasutaka Kojima, Milomir Kovacevic, Jason Langer, Li Jie Liu, O Rufus Lovett, Joseph Maida, Gratiane de Moustier, Mladen Pikulic, Dan Nelken, France Scully Osterman, Mark Osterman, Sung Jin Park, Paolo Pellegrin, Matthew Pillsbury, Nicholas Prior, Chris Rauschenberg, Frank Rodick, Jessica Rowe, Junsik Shin, Elizabeth Siegfried, Inbal Sivan, Radek Skrivanek, Will Steacy, Maura Sullivan, Joseph Szabo, Brad Temkin, Vicki Topaz, Charles Traub, Preston Wadley, Ann Weathersby, Frederic Weber and Marc Yankus
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