From the 70 South Gallery:
70 South Gallery – Announces new exhibition, Black, White and Color. This energetic show features: Master Prints of textured landscapes and abstracts by large format professional photographer Joe Freeman, intimate city perspectives from Newark Academy student, Josh Charow, and unique glazed sculptures by Bill Wickey.
Black, White and Color opens to the public at 9 am, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015.
July 28, 2015 – Morristown, N.J.: Morristown’s first unique community-focused photography gallery and service center: 70 South Gallery, is pleased to announce the artists for its next exhibition Black, White and Color which opens on Saturday August 15, 2015 at 9:00 AM. This show will feature silver gelatin prints, large-scale landscapes, abstracts, a fresh look at our cities, and glazed sculptures.
Gina Cerbone, gallery curator, states, “In curating this show, we wanted to visually touch people with the emotional connection of the presence and absence of color.”
Cerbone continues, “Joe Freeman’s tension and beauty filled black and white images call to mind those of Sebastian Salgado or Ansel Adams. We have coupled this with the vibrant colors of Josh Charow’s city views. In addition, we are introducing our first 3D artwork of Bill Wickey’s sculptures that start from muted forms and take on a richness of the colors of summer through his exclusive glazing process.”
Per Ira L. Black, artist relations manager, “As a premier photography gallery, it is important to work with photographers of Joe Freeman’s caliber to showcase his older silver gelatin, large format work and his new work that have a three dimensional quality in the textures he creates.”
Black continues, “Of equal importance is the support of great new talents such as Josh Charow, our student photographer, who offers a clever eye and fresh perspective to the cities in which we live.”
Dick Eger, former president and trustee of the Arts Council of the Morris Area, and curator of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Gallery at 14 Maple, offers the following about Joe Freeman’s work:
“There are two traits that differentiate merely good from exceptional photographers—passion and vision. Combine these with obsessive printing technique, and a singular attention to detail and extraordinary work emerges. This is Joe Freeman’s raison d’etre. He lives for his art and in return, his images live.”
About our photographers and sculptor:
Joe Freeman is a visionary photographer in which his photographs reveal the tension between earth and sky, between man-made and nature and especially between dark and light. Freeman sees what others do not. He uses black to shape a scene, form an object, accentuate an idea, add boldness, heft and importance to his image. Some knowledgeable art academics and historians have compared his work to Ansel Adams. I think Joe’s work exudes feelings rarely experienced in photography. His professors purchased much of the work at his senior show at the Rhode Island School of Design. At the University of Washington where he collected his Masters in Photography, he received similar accolades. In addition, he has been nominated for a number of prestigious photography awards.
Josh Charow will be a Senior at Newark Academy this September. He got his first camera at the age of 10 and eventually was able to save up to buy a DSLR three years later. With the same camera since age 13, Josh has explored and discovered the most beautiful unseen perspectives of New York City. His work focuses on the city lights of New York after hours, whether it is from a rooftop, a subway station, or on the street. Josh has worked on projects shooting for Young and Reckless, Stance Socks, and Aeropostale. He has won awards for his cityscapes from Scholastic. Josh is enrolled in the summer film program at NYU Tisch. His goal is to one day be a professional cinematographer. Josh describes his process in this manner, “I want an emotion to be projected on the viewer, fear, happiness, sadness or another emotion. If I can make someone feel something with one frame, then I’m satisfied with my work.”
Bill Wickey has been a potter for more than 50 years. Exploring glazes, clays, and producing original pieces that are functional, ornamental and sculptural is an obsession for Bill. Wickey’s glaze palette includes a variety of tones as well as brilliant saturated color. Through years of experimentation, he has developed his own glaze and oxide mixtures. In his Forms and Shapes sculptural pieces, some of which are exhibited in this show, many of the glaze designs and clay shapes are based on the seasons and represent the colors and mood of the time of the year.
70 South Gallery is a unique retail store that combines the best of a photo gallery and service center. Our mission is to support photographers (both amateurs and professionals) by providing a central location where they can collaborate, admire and share their work with each other. Photographers of all kinds have the opportunity to exhibit their photographs, while art– lovers and collectors have the opportunity to own original and remarkable photographic art.
