Black and white image above by Elizabeth Albritton
Color image above by Rosie McCobb
Thank you to community-spirited agent and art-enthusiast, Joe Fallon, who this month curates a show of photography at the McCormack & Scanlan Real Estate office/gallery. On display through November 2010 will be photographs by Rosie McCobb and Elizabeth Albritton, who each shot a series of images inspired by the neighborhoods they live in and love. The opening reception is Wednesday, November 3rd from 6-9 pm at 68 South Street in Jamaica Plain.
McCobb's series, Unexpected Brooklyn: Neighborhood Landscape in Transition, is the result of her fascination with three neighborhoods in Brooklyn that are at "the midpoint between the old blight and the recent rejuvenation." These documentary photographs were taken on her visual safaris into Bedford-Stuveysant, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and Red Hook "collecting compositions of things that are often unnoticed, yet striking in their color, design and beauty." She says, "I feel it is my job as a visual artist to slow down and capture my surroundings." Rosie's work is printed on archival canvas, and mounted on stretchers like a painting. To view more of her work, please go to http://www.rosiemccobb.com/
Elizabeth Albritton seems to share that view, as her series Summer, night considers well-loved spaces in Jamaica Plain "as a locus of new mystery." She uncovers unknown views of familiar landscapes in works that make masterful use of long exposures, available light and light she adds. All the digital photographs in the series are printed on archival metallic paper. To see Elizabeth's work please go to www.elizabethalbritton.com
