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Look Up (New York)
Digital Photography 30” x 20”
MARISA ATHA
Marisa Atha’s photographs
traverse the space between
experience and memory. She
captures common but often
overlooked hallmarks of the
urban experience: industrial
staircases, undersides
of bridges, banners floating
above downtown sidewalks.
These images recall quiet
scenes that every city dweller
or tourist has undoubtedly
noted and tucked away while
walking through urban streets
or subway tunnels. Through newspaper-like graininess,
saturated colors and blurred movement coupled with bursts
of clarity, Atha memorializes momentary experience, at
once acknowledging the volatility and the sublimity of urbanity.
As an artist, Atha understands the ways in which the
mind meshes and reforms its memories. Her photographs
are manipulated to mirror the transformations that occur
as an encounter turns into an intangible recollection. But
Atha makes these recollections tangible again. Through her
photographs, the ephemeral qualities of memory are pulled
back into the physical, visible world. Marisa Atha received
a B.A. from California Polytechnic State University and an
M.M. from San Francisco State. She has exhibited nationally
and currently runs ArtSake Studio out of San Francisco.
Websites: www.artsakestudio.com
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/Marisa_Atha.aspx
APOLO ANTON ARAUZ
Train Digital Photography
Mexican photographer, Apolo
Anton Arauz, transforms urban
settings into otherworldly
experiences. He often incorporates
found objects that serve as
unique and abstract portals into
a city’s inner meaning. Old and
rotting buildings become beautiful
fragments of a forgotten and
sometimes unknown past. Arauz
captures a rusting, brownish-red
industrial ladder, the svelte floor
of a tennis court, and the barbed
47” x 31.5”
wire of a prison entrance with
such delicacy and care, that settings normally termed edgy
and upsetting become at once beautiful and elegant. These
photographs imbue urban dwellings with new life and mysterious
vigor, inviting the viewer to delve deeper into the uncovered
history of such places. Arauz collects objects from
the sites he photographs and then covers them in Resin
Polyester Plastic, giving a physical dimension to the fleeting
moments captured in his artwork. Observation is key to
Arauz’s artistic method; the inanimate objects in his work
are the embodiment of human emotions. The ability to give
such feelings a physical form is what makes Apolo Anton
Arauz’s artwork so mesmerizing with a multitude of hidden
meanings ready to be uncovered.
Website: www.blue021.com
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/Apolo_Anton_Arauz.aspx
530 West 25th Street Chelsea, New York City, NY
Tel: 212-226-4151 / Fax: 212-966-4380
www.Agora-Gallery.com / info@Agora-Gallery.com
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