Bruce Cratsley
Intimate Light
Ware pleased to be exhibiting Bruce Cratsley: Intimate Light. Cratsley was born in 1944 and passed at the age of 53 due to complications from AIDS. After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1966 he went on to study with photographer Lisette Model at the New School for Social Research. He is often referred to as “The Master of Light and Shadow.”
Saturated with light, mysterious reflections and deep shadows, his subjects: inanimate objects, urban street scenes, portraits of friends, lovers, and strangers remind us of the potential and fragility of life. The illumination and multiple reflections in the shop window create a poetic question of reality in the image Self Reflected in Florist Shop Window, Paris, 1995. Sensual and comforting light intensifies the tenuous line between living and dying in Wings of Light (John M.), 1987. Cratsley’s images are intimate fragments of his everyday life. Their exquisite luminosity makes them unforgettable.
These 15 vintage gelatin silver photographs represent the varied and broad interests of Cratsley. The majority these images have never been published.
Jason Demarte
Confected
This is Jason DeMarte’s first exhibition in Boston. DeMarte combines images to create artificial flora and fauna --a sugary vision dripping literally in sweetness. DeMarte’s new world is tranquil and seductive, playing with the viewer’s acceptance of what is unnatural from what we know to be real and true. Recognizable birds exist in a newly developed hyper-real environment with vines, branches, flowers, and trees…added are jellybeans, candy canes, sprinkles, and gummy worms.
His manipulation of the truth uses “completely unnatural elements to speak metaphorically and symbolically of our mental separation from what is ‘real,’ and compare and contrast this with the consumer world we surround ourselves with as a consequence.” DeMarte’s work is delightfully delicious!
Greg Heins
Fragments/Tokyo
Fragments/Tokyo will be Greg Heins’ second exhibition at the gallery. Most people are unaware of their surroundings when walking in the city --often connected to their phones and not paying attention. Heins does just the opposite. Recently while visiting Tokyo on museum business, he spent his off hours exploring the areas around him. These fragments represent the visual journal of this exploration. Heins’ use of light and color heighten the experience and show us a nontourist point of view.
What I seek in my practice of photography is to recover a sense of freedom, of liberty, of play. -Greg Heins
Heins graduated from Cornell University and has been photographing art works for nearly 20 years. He lives and works in Boston where he is the photographer for the Museum of Fine Arts. His work is in many private collections as well as the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.