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An online exhibition
SCOTT ALARIO AND JEREMY STENGER
June 12 - July 12
The gallery is delighted to present this online exhibition of vintage photographs by Scott Alario and paintings on paper by Jeremy Stenger. Alario’s collaborative photographs of his wife, artist Marguerite Keyes, and daughter, Elska, are silver gelatin prints, taken with an 8 x 10 inch viewfinder camera. They are one-of-a-kind contact prints, developed in a traditional chemical darkroom by placing the negative in direct contact with light sensitive paper and toning the paper by hand. The intimacy of scale of these works captures views of the two female protagonists, at once bold and tender, staged in the green outdoors. Stenger’s paintings of intertwining leaves and flowers are made in a process of continuously adding paint to paper and wiping it away. Leaves, fallen to the ground and collected together with his daughter on walks home from school, are depicted straight-on in his images. They share the x-ray quality of photographic prints and early xeroxes. Elegant lines in black acrylic give way to subtle tones of, pink, green, and yellow, as well as streaks, traces, and residues.
Scott and Jeremy worked together and with their daughters, Elska, and Harper, to create a video for this online exhibition. The video includes images of Alario at night, photographing Marguerite, Elska, and their dog, Rupee, at a beach, as well as photographs of specific leaves that Stenger used in the creation of his paintings. The soundtrack features Elska on violin and Harper’s vocals.
Studio
Stenger’s indirect and painstaking process creates spirit-filled visions of gardens at night, where the experience of perspective and rational space is blurred into fragments and projections. They are like elegiac shrines to the natural world – and to the impossibility of separating human presence from the landscape, which is as much a product of the mind as the weather. -Jennifer Coates, Artcritical
