BROOKLYN, NY – This April Causey Contemporary is pleased to announce two solo debut exhibitions to the gallery. Run From View will feature the unique black and white silver gelatin prints of photographer Chuck Kelton. Also on view will be Day For Night, the latest series of paintings by Shelton Walsmith. Open through May 17, 2010.
Run From View | Chuck Kelton
The exhibition “Run From View” represents the newest photographic explorations of Chuck Kelton. Drawn from autobiographical experiences, the work celebrates the chaos and fragmentation of life. Kelton constructs abstracted images which become narratives saturated with metaphorical structure. Inspired visually by landscapes these images tend to be more mythological than temporal. The work clings to classical black and white techniques, Each photograph will be executed as editions of three with the prints within each edition having slight variations.
Chuck Kelton is the owner of Kelton Labs in New York City. For the last twenty five years Kelton has worked as a master printer producing exhibitions, and advertising campaigns for photographers worldwide. His clients have included Lillian Bassman, Danny Lyon, Helen Levitt, Mary Ellen Mark, John Loengard, as well as museums and publications. His photographs are included in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. When not in the darkroom, Kelton teaches workshops throughout the country as well as an intensive Independent Projects Seminar at the International Center of Photography.
Day For Night/ Sheldon Walsmith
The exhibition Day for Night features three distinct new series of paintings by artist, Sheldon Walsmith. The series, La Perambulati, Ill Corallo and The New Phonetic each play with polarity. Sheldon feels it is the artist’s task is to extend the expanse between black and white; between opposing forces. The paintings in Day For Night represents thispractice; like a waking dream these paintings are the fractaling seconds between dawn and dusk, fact and fantasy, experiencing and remembering.
Shelton Walsmith is a multi-media artist working in the Gowanus Canal area of Brooklyn. His work has been published by The ParisReview, Knopf, Vintage, Rizzoli Books, Unsaid Magazine, New York Tyrant and others. He has exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Prague and Austin. Walsmith is the founder and host of the event series Yardmeter Editions.
About the Gallery:
Causey Contemporary represents exquisite technically and conceptually challenging art. The gallery exhibits the
work of its core group of 13 artists in 11 show annually, in addition to hosting special exhibitions by other critically recognized artists. Causey Contemporary participates in two or more international art fairs annually and also organizes international touring exhibitions.
Causey Contemporary and its artists have been covered in ARTnews, Artforum, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and multipleother art and culture publications. Gallery artists are included in the collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and other institutions throughout the world. Established in 1999 as Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art founderand Director Tracy Causey-Jeffery changed the gallery name in September 2009 in honor of her parents. In March 2010, the gallery relocated to its new location at 92 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Mission:
Causey Contemporary cultivates and represents contemporary artists from their emergence through their maturity. The Gallery is dedicated to helping collectors understand and enjoy their artworks within historical, cultural and social contexts. The gallery mission is to nourish dialogue and relationships between artists, collectors and curators. Causey Contemporary strives to provide a multilayered platform for each artist’s individual voice,and to help that voice be heard by new and seasoned collectors alike.
For more information on the Run From View by Chuck Kelton or Day For Night by Shelton Walsmith call 718 218 8939 or email [email protected].
www.causeycontemporary.com
Image: “I Can See Right Through It”, Chuck Kelton. Gold toned silver gelatin print, 19 x 15. 5 inches, 1/3 states, 2010
