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Wally Gilbert
“Images from Life”
April 12th - May 7th, 2022
Opening reception Thursday, April 14, 6 – 8 PM
Second Reception: Saturday, April 23, 3–6PM
Chelsea: Viridian Artists Inc. is pleased to present an exhibition of new digital imagery by the artist/scientist/photographer Wally Gilbert, entitled “Images from Life”. The show opens April 12th and continues through May 7th, 2022. You are invited to meet the artist and celebrate the opening of this exhibit on Thursday, April 14, 6 – 8 PM. There will be a second reception on Saturday, April 23, 3–6 PM.
Wally Gilbert is a prolific artist/ photographer who has been exploring color and form in a multitude of solo exhibitions at Viridian as well as other locations since the early 2000’s, digitally experimenting and analyzing a range of imagery. Sometimes he explores the details of beautiful decay as in his Norblin Project, the documentation of a former factory in Poland, while at other times he digitally alters and transforms the imagery of machines, towers, plants, doorways, fruit – beginning with images of daily life that he encounters with his camera, perhaps in travel or perhaps on just a walk through a park.
Working with digital photography, Gilbert, the artist/scientist, approaches his imagery as he would any scientific investigation, exploring and experimenting in a thousand ways before accepting his findings. He has scrutinized color and form in extreme detail, become more and more involved with transforming and layering until new patterns emerge, almost of their own accord. Investigating and manipulating, he transforms and combines fragments of photographs into arresting artworks that are simultaneously abstract, multi-faceted and multi-layered.
In this most recent series of images taken with his i-phone, Gilbert is exploring the world around us, seeing and recording the beauty of nature and then transforming on the computer what he sees, adding black boundaries as if drawing his own version of a reality filled with the intensity of life exemplified through his intensifying colors.
Gilbert brings us into his process, not really revealing his inner self, but offering us a choice through his various interpretations of what he sees. With “Red Flower”, “Yellow Flower”, “Purple Flower”, only the “Broken Flowers” hint at more in their titles which on the surface speak to the broken image only. “Forever Red”, “Forever Blue” could be portraits of the land but it is up to us to fill in the details and “Sunset” barely reveals two hidden structures behind the black silhouettes of foliage under a burning red sky that if we let ourselves, we could think might be the fires of California.
We look forward to sharing with you, Wally Gilbert’s latest investigations, artistically inspired.
For further information please contact
Vernita Nemec, Director or Jenny Belin, Assistant Director
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